These past months, AAPK has been working hard to increase its
capacity to manage projects and has been successful in renewing its
official status as a "Belgian Development NGO". These
competencies and the official approval have allowed our little NGO
to submit new projects to the Belgian Directorate General for
Development Cooperation (DGCD) in order to obtain additional
subsidies. Hence, thanks to your support, AAPK aims to carry out a
health project in 2008-2009 at the Walungu Hospital in South Kivu,
in which our NGO plans to invest 20% and the Belgian DGCD, 80% of
the total budget.
This project for 2008-2009 is established in consultation with
our local partner, the 'Fonds Social du Kivu.' It aims to reinforce
the capacity to deal with trauma cases in surgery, to support the
operation of an ophthalmologic service, to build the institutional
capacities of our local partner, and last but by no means least, to
promote special actions concerning hygiene in particular.
Hygiene is a universal preoccupation. At home as in hospitals, in
Europe as in Africa, human beings aim to be clean in their dress and
their actions. In Belgian hospitals, hygiene is encouraged by the
State, which pays the salaries of nurses and doctors who are
dedicated to this alone. In every service, there is a nurse who is a
nominated "expert" in hygienic matters. These procedures
are put in place in collaboration with the relevant services, to
enable them to continually assess and improve hygiene, following a
quality cycle process. Hygiene is therefore of concern to all, all
the more so because the caring personnel runs a high risk of
transmission of diseases in the everyday course of their work.
Our project at the Hospital of Walungu focuses partly on hygiene.
The current situation is below par. The initial focus will be on
drawing up a Hygiene Charter, which engages and encourages the
personnel to respect certain universal precautionary rules in their
actions: washing their hands before and after contact with each
patient, asepsis methods, maintenance of clean working spaces etc.
Continuous training of staff will be put into place, given that
hygiene appears to be one of those practices that tend to be
forgotten or simplified in the cut and thrust of daily work, here as
in Walungu, due to time and work pressures, or simply through lack
of attention. Investment will be agreed to rebuild floors and
surfaces, notably in the operating room. Part of the budget will be
devoted to studying the renovation of the sanitary installations.
Additional incinerators will be installed to deal with the
hospital's waste. Local manpower will be involved in the
implementation of the project.
Material, manpower and training are all present in this project
based on quality principles. Despite difficult conditions, we are
hopeful of success thanks to your continued interest and loyalty.
Thank you again for your support!
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