Diseases surveillance: first departures to Pemba
Insert in News the day January 28, 2009
The project “Rehabilitation of the Health Management Information System (HMIS) for endemic and epidemic diseases in Zanzibar” has started: at the beginning of February the logistician will arrive in Pemba, followed in a short time by the project manager and the teaching-consultant in epidemiology.
In Zanzibar a lot of children are malnourished and with anaemia, which is even more serious for the spread of malaria, parasitic diseases, tuberculosis, leprosy, filariasis, diarrhoea, respiratory infections. Knowledge of endemic and epidemic diseases in a country allow to implement more punctual control and prevention strategic plans. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation’s new project supports the reform of the HMIS promoted by the local Health Ministry (MoHSW) and launched in 2005.
The Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri will become the operational unit of the HMIS for data collection and analysis in Pemba; at the same time the MoHSW District infrastructures will be strengthen by providing equipment for data collection and analysis and local health personnel will be trained for epidemiologic surveillance. The project is co-financed by the Italian Cooperation.