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Establishing a Wellness Centre. Sheila Dickson INMO President February 2012. Where? – Ethiopia For Whom? – Health Care Workers & Families How? – Partnership With Whom? – Nursing Association, Funders and Department of Health.
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Establishing a Wellness Centre Sheila Dickson INMO President February 2012
Where? – Ethiopia • For Whom? – Health Care Workers & Families • How? – Partnership • With Whom? – Nursing Association, Funders and Department of Health
Reasons • Improve Health of Staff • Unsafe Workplace • Stress, Burnout, High Attrition Rates and Migration
Services Provided • HIV and TB Testing / Treatments • Education in Prevention • Training • Occupation Health & Safety • Stress Management • Counselling
Wellness Centres Established • Swaziland • Malawi • Zambia • Lesotho • Uganda
Positive Results in Swaziland • 6,225 Health Care Workers treated • 77% of total workforce • Outreach programme • Migration • 65% uptake / monthly • Now Government Policy
Health Statistics Ethiopia • 54,000 Health Workers to serve 85 Million People • 1 Physician for 37,996 • 1 Nurse for 4725 (MOH 2008) • Major Public Health Problems – TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS • Accessing Services Difficult • Pay for Diagnostic Procedures / Treatment – Unaffordable.
Nurse from Lesotho - “The wellness centre has been a real refuge for me. It means I don’t have to queue in overcrowded waiting rooms with my own patients”
Current Status of Ethiopia Wellness Centre • Site Donated by Ministry of Health Ethiopia • Alert Hospital, Addis Ababa • Funders INMO / PEPFAR / BD • Renovations in process • Mou Signed by ENA/ICN/INMO
INMO • Largest Nursing & Midwives Organisation • Membership – 42,000 • Professional & Trade Union • Linked to 120 Countries (ICN) • Objective to share experience and support with nursing associations