Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Closing Ceremony

We concluded our health training of trainers yesterday. We held one last teaching session at the Schweitzer Hospital outpatient clinic. Nurses from the General Hospital led sessions on HIV/AIDS and family planning. Both topics created some excellent discussions and an informative question and answer session. I know I said this before, but I am really proud of their work and their commitment to this training.

Following the last teaching session we held a closing ceremony (photo included of all the trainees) in which I thanked them for their hard work, discussed future plans, and distributed certificates of participation for each of the trainees. Regarding future plans, I have spoken with the current moderators, Mme. Nze and Mme. M'Badinga (aka Mamma SIDA) and they have agreed to continue to serve as moderators for future health training sessions. The nurses and midwives would like to continue with this training and they recognize that we have just scratched the surface as far as covering important health education topic are concerned.

The best news of the day came when I ran into the Director of Care. She informed me that subsequent to the closing ceremony, she was in the hospital and overheard some of the trainees discussing their plan of action for training the remaining nurses on their respective hospital service and strategies for conducting health education sessions with the patient population. I truly believe that we had an excellent group of trainees that will follow through with their work and our initial objectives.

So that wraps up my public health work in Gabon. I have written a final report summarizing the steps taken to organize this training, the different contacts made, the results of the pre- and post-test questionnaires and my thoughts /reflections on my experience here. I have also left copies of all of my presentations and teaching materials. I will work with the PMI (Protection Maternal et Infantile...a.k.a. the community health clinic) on Wednesday and Thursday and then I will leave Lambarene early Friday morning. My flight for Ethiopia departs at 2:30PM on Saturday.
I will spend the following 9 days in Ethiopia seeing the sights and enjoying the people and some of the best food around.

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