Yesterday, 1 September 2020, he concluded in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a three-day education on running shoes on infection prevention and (IPC) for COVID-19.Education was organized through the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in partnership with the Directorate-General for Disease Control of the Ministry of Public Health and the National Port Health Programme of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Thirty fitness staff members from Kongo Central and Kinshasa provinces participated in education.
“COVID-19 is highly contagious, the most productive way to manage it is prevention.Health care personnel are at the greatest threat of COVID-19 infection due to their exposure to COVID-19 cases, and we don’t need our physical care services to infection centers.The goal of this education is to teach our fitness staff how to protect themselves and their clients from infection,” said Dr. Aruna Aaron, Head of the Government’s Division of Disease Control at the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has borders with nine other African countries and has experienced several disease outbreaks in recent years, adding several outbreaks of Ebola virus disease.Education therefore aimed to equip port fitness staff and fitness services with IPC capabilities so that they can protect themselves while caring about consumers and users.This is very vital as countries begin to ease the blockade and open their borders to foreigners around the world.
Targeted education and supplementary precautions in fitness facilities, hospital hygiene, how to properly use and manage non-public protective equipment, surface decontamination, sterilization, disinfection and waste management. The third and final day of the workshop included practice sessions in Vijana. Hospital, one of the COVID-19 fitness centers, and on the beach and port of Ngobila, on the border with Congo Brazzaville.
“I discovered education very interesting. It is true that we learned all this in college, but there is an added price in daily practice. Through education, we learned the desire to practice hygiene standards and waste control, adding hygiene of the patient and the hospital. surroundings to prevent infection, “said Ornella Mafana, a physician and participant from Kinshasa.
Dr. Jean-Paul Buhalagarha, CDC Africa’s COVID-19 Mission Support Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo, encouraged participants to apply lessons learned from education in their professional practice and to share wisdom with other fitness workers. fitness in their establishments and communities.
He said: “What we need through this education is to decrease infections among health care personnel. Available knowledge shows that 3.4% of COVID-19 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June 2020 were they referred to health service providers who were inflamed and seeking to save lives. It is the time of education that we are organizing so that those personnel make sure to reduce that number as much as possible. We organized the first education 4 months ago.
Distributed through the APO Group on behalf of the African Union (AU).
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