Public Health Officer
International Medical Corps
Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months
Implementing WASH and health programmes in mashonaland central province:
-conducting coordination meetings with stakeholders and other NGOs
-work in collaboration with MOHCW officials
-training of volunteers and health staff on inetrgrated disease surveillance, for mergency preparedness and to strenghten surveillance in communities which are prone to public health emergencies
-formation of community and school hygiene clubs as a way of health promotion
-conduct community social mobilization using PHHE, PRA and PHAST tools
-report writing
-monitoring and evaluation of the projects
-conduct baseline survey and indepth assessment
-stock control
-support and supervise volunteers
-monitor latrine construction in the communities, schools and health facilities
-work according USAID and ECHO guidelines
-plan and conduct on job trainings to health staff, to improve health delivery system in the rural health facilities e.g drug management, obstetric management and infection control
-respond to public health emergencies within 24 to 48 hours, together with ministry of health and child welfare e.g cholera outbreak, anthrax outbreak, typhoid fever and floods
-placing emergency peparedness kits in all health facilities and to community risk disaster management committees at ward level
-submit monthly reports to my immediate supervisor and all stakeholders
-setting up cholera treament camps and management of cholera patients
-ensure that all districts and communities have disaster plans in place
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❖ Booking pregnant women for antenatal care ❖ History taking and physical assessment of patients ❖ Screening of blood groups, HIV haemoglobin levels, reagent plasma reaction ❖ Treatment of sexually transmitted infection in pregnant mothers ❖ Health education on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and AIDS Programme (PMTCT) and get an informed concerned on HIV testing and treatment. ❖ Give health information of minor disorders of pregnancy and physiological changes ❖ Prepare the pregnant woman for labor and expectations post delivery-by giving health information on signs of onset of labor, tour the pregnant women around the maternity ward ❖ Admission of patients with pregnancy complications and antenatal ward ❖ Routine vital observations ❖ Monitoring Universal precautions to prevent Intra- Utero transmission of HIV, make sure we deliver an HIV free baby e.g. Avoid prolonged labour, episiotomy, intubation of neonates and observing PMTCT protocol ❖ Admission of pregnant woman in first stage of labor and continuous monitoring of wellbeing of a patient in labor and the baby in question with the use of a partogram ❖ Conduct a safe delivery of a live baby and care of a patient in third stage of labor e.g. administration of oxytocic drug, emptying of the bladder, repair of all tears and conduct post delivery vital observations-blood pressure, temperature, pulse and contraction of the uterus and blood loss ❖ care of the newborn ❖ Management of any obstetric complications with gynecologist and other midwives ❖ Prepare the patient for caesarian session, shaving of the patient, catheterize the patient, insert the name tag and ensure that the patient has signed the concert form in the presence of the midwife and the doctor ❖ Initiation of breastfeeding soon after delivery ❖ Entering of all patients in admission book and delivery registers ❖ Routine postnatal care and 6 weeks visit
Award on emergency medical and trauma management