Weekly Highlights
As of 6 June, IOM’s National Ebola Training Academy in partnership with WHO, COMAHS,
RSLAF and MOHS has trained 7,726 health care workers and frontline responders in Freetown (6,702 at the Academy) and via mobile trainings (1024 trained) on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) modules.On 2-3 June one IPC mobile training was held in Kono for 45 traditional birth assistants. From 1-3 June another training was delivered to 18 IOM health screeners and 4 Port Health officials in Kambia.
IOM has been requested by the Ebola Response Consortium to send 2 IOM trainers each to 4 Government hospitals in Freetown to train a total of 2000 hospital personnel on IPC over the coming weeks.
IOM welcomed USAID/OFDA’s Health Advisor/ Programme Officer on a field visit of USAID/OFDAsupported IOM Kambia projects and new IOM Kambia sub-office on 02 June 2015. IOM Mobile IPC Training, Health and Humanitarian Border Management (HHBM) and the Emergency Interim Care Kit projects were all showcased.