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Empowering Neonatal Care in Ethiopia

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The two-day meeting, held on September 3-4, 2024 in Addis Ababa, was the kick-off meeting of the “Strengthening Neonatology in Ethiopia” project, in collaboration with Doctors with Africa CUAMM, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Ethiopian Pediatric Society, and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health. The meeting was very useful and productive, providing an opportunity to get to know and establish connections with a group of Ethiopian neonatologists.

Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa – Meeting between Corrado Moretti (UENPS President), Gianluca Lista (Member of the UENPS Scientific Board) and Linda Storari, Michela Papotti (CHIESI Foundation) with the Italian Ambassador Agostino Palese.

We were able to plan the main initiatives to be undertaken and the topics to be addressed based on the survey conducted by UENPS in 44 NICUs in Ethiopia. We begin with the real needs of the people and seek ways and solutions to improve the care of newborns.

Special attention will be given to Tigray, with the Shire Hospital, and the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the Black Lion Specialized Hospital, where the respective NICUs will be renovated, improved, and equipped. Among other objectives: a major conference in January 2025, where 20 Ethiopian pediatricians will be trained, thanks to the involvement of UENPS neonatologists and the Ethiopian Pediatric Society (EPS).

During the training period, the Ethiopian pediatricians, in turn, will train 125 midwives and nurses in neonatal resuscitation. The expected beneficiaries, thanks to the comprehensive and cross-cutting action, include more than 20,700 women who will receive care and over 3,700 newborns who will be treated in the NICUs of the two hospitals.

Kick-off meeting in Addis Ababa

New recruitment platform!

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Within the framework of the ‘Seed for Life’ project for low-resource countries, UENPS collaborates with the Italian Cooperation and the Spanish Cooperation in the Joint European Initiative to Strengthen Specialized Medicine in Ethiopia. Neonatologists and pediatricians will have the opportunity to contribute their expertise by conducting short in-service training and capacity-building missions in Ethiopia.

Medical specialists from European national Health Systems who are fluent in English and available to travel to Ethiopia to provide 12-day in-service trainings in University Hospitals can register at:
https://medicaltraining.aecid.es

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First survey UENPS in Ethiopia

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As part of the ‘Seed for Life’ project, UENPS has just conducted the first survey in Ethiopia on ‘Survey on Delivery Room Resuscitation and Neonatal Respiratory Care in NICUs in Ethiopia’, which has been distributed to a list of hospitals selected by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH). The aim of the survey is to gain both an overall understanding of the level of care and the major challenges that these hospitals face in providing neonatal care. The survey is the first step of a broader project aimed at helping to improve neonatal care levels in Ethiopia.

Enhancing medical specialization in Ethiopia: a joint European initiative

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Within the framework of the ‘Seed for Life’ project for low-resource countries, UENPS collaborates with the Italian Cooperation and the Spanish Cooperation in the Joint European Initiative to Strengthen Specialized Medicine in Ethiopia. This European initiative foresees to work in 8 specialty areas: anesthesiology and intensive care, emergency and critical care, OBGYN, orthopedics and traumatology, pediatrics and child health, radiology, surgery and psychiatry.

UENPS has appointed Prof. Daniele Trevisanuto as the team leader for Pediatrics and Child Health. His responsibilities include assessing training needs, proposing intervention methods, aligning curricula with national standards, selecting trainers, and reviewing training reports.