A four-week intensive COVID-19 Critical Case Management training for eighty-six clinicians has ended in Accra.
The training, which started in January, involved four cohorts of clinicians who were taken through oxygen therapy using a combination of didactic methods and clinical rounds. It was organized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
At the closing ceremony, the Acting Health Office Director for USAID–Ghana,Dr Stephen Dzisi, said USAID will support government to expand the training to district health workers in selected regions.
He reiterated the Agency’s commitment to support Ghana’s COVID-19 response and commended the Ministry of Health and the GHS for continued leadership.
The clinicians were schooled on practical mechanical ventilation, airway management, pulse oximetry, blood pressure monitoring, and chest tube insertion.
They are to use the techniques acquired to manage COVID-19 critically ill patients at the wards. The clinicians also received an Intensive Care Unit “starter kit,” an essential package of supplies to support their work.
