W/African health workers begin five-day training on combating Ebola disease in Ghana

Health workers from six countries in the West African sub-region will begin a five-day training session from Monday, November 24, 2014 in Accra, Ghana.A statement by the ECOWAS Commission on Saturday in Abuja said that after the training sessions, they would be integrated with the Ministries of Health in the three countries most affected by the Ebola disease – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It added that the training is a joint initiative of the African Union and ECOWAS through the Organization of West African Health Organization (WAHO), its specialized institution in the field and that the training is for some 150 doctors, nurses and health technicians volunteers from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.
According to the statement, the training is part of the regional response plan adopted by the last Assembly of Health Ministers of ECOWAS states and aims to provide substantial support in human resources in the health system of the most affected countries in their efforts to contain the epidemic.
It explained that the programme will be for a period of three months to strengthen the response capacity of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the identification of cases, patient care, tracking contacts, setting preventive measures and management of the bodies of the victims, while revitalizing their overall health care system.
The opening ceremony of the training programme, which will hold at the Kofi Annan-Accra Centre, will be addressed by the Minister of Health of Ghana, representatives of AfDB and the African Union and the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo.

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