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Annual Review Meeting Conducted in West Harerge

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The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) together with the West Harerge Zone health department organized an annual review meeting from August 27-28, 2021 in Chiro Town. Hospital and health center managers, MCH focal persons, woreda health office managers, family health officers, and zonal health department staff attended the meeting. Opening speech and keynote addresses were given by zone health department heads. All zonal MCH activities including the project activity were presented by the MCH coordinator of the zone health office. Facility managers presented their MCH performance including FP and CAC services and discussion was made. The discussion was led by the zone health bureau head and zone MCH department heads. Finally, zone health department participants and district health office participants recognized the performance of the MCH activities and promised to give attention to provide quality services.

ESOG works in two general hospitals and 20 health centers in West Harerge Zone under the strengthening the capacity and improving quality of Reproductive Health and reducing stigma on safe abortion care providers’ project funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The project activities performed in the zone were presented at the review meeting.

Created: 04 September 2021

ESOG Provided Medical Supplies for Hospitals, Health Centers

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Following reports on shortages of supplies, the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) provided Medical Supplies and drugs to hospitals and health centers. Five MVA Kits with 4-12 mm cannula, 25 gowns, 25 Aprons, four boxes of Miso-Mifo drugs were provided for hospitals while the health centers got four MVA kits with 4-9 mm and 4-12 mm cannula, 15 Gowns, and 15 Aprons, two boxes of Miso-Mifo drugs. 

The support was made with the aim of improving the quality of MCH services including family planning and comprehensive abortion care.

The support was made by one of ESOG’s Projects entitled- Strengthening Capacity and Improving Quality of Reproductive Health (Family Planning (FP) and Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC)) and Reducing Stigma on Abortion Care Service Providers. The overall objective of the project is to improve the quality of FP and CAC in the primary health care units to increase service uptake and support the Ministry of Health (MoH) in developing effective de-stigmatization strategies for safe abortion care among health care workers. To achieve this end, the project aims at institutionalizing FP and CAC and newborn health mentorship programs at primary hospitals and health centers through producing Emergency Surgical Officers (ESOs). Strengthening the quality improvement programs in FP, CAC, maternal and child health at primary hospitals and health centers, and reducing stigma and discrimination against abortion care providers are also the objectives of the project.

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the project has been implemented by ESOG in partnership with MoH, regional health bureaus, woreda health offices, hospitals, and health centers.

Created: 04 September 2021

Clean CS Project Data Collection Training Conducted

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Virtual training for data collectors has been underway beginning July 19, 2021, for two weeks to end on July 30, 2021. Attending the training were about 50 participants from 10 hospitals from four regions of the country.

The data collection will be conducted for a research project being implemented by the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) in collaboration with Lifebox. The data collection involves three phases: intraoperative, in-ward or in-patient, and post-operation follow-up data collection.

The data collection aims at identifying the causes of surgical site infection during and after surgery. The collected data then will be encoded into the latest open source software currently in use by the Ministry of Health. The findings of the research are then expected to be used as a baseline for an intervention to curb infection in these institutions.

Created: 29 July 2021

A Series of CMEs on Ultrasound

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The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) in collaboration with Mindray have conducted a series of CME courses on ultrasound on August 29, 2021. The online session was attended by dozens of Ob-Gyns, and health care professionals.

The CME session addressed The Role of Ultrasound in Gynecological Surgery and Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS), among other topics. Dr. Jin Huang, Dr. Abdulfetah Abdulkadir, and Dr. Fikre Geremew were among the speakers at the session.

Founded in 1991, Mindray is one of the global providers of medical devices and solutions. ESOG and Mindray have collaborated on so many other CMEs for members and health care providers.

Created: 30 August 2021

Fighting Stigma against Providers

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The above picture was randomly selected from Google by one of the participants at the Providers Share Workshop conducted in Adama from July 9 to 11, 2021. The picture was selected by the participant in response to an activity challenge posed by Dr. Tesfaye Hurisa, one of the trainers on the workshop. Dr. Tesfaye challenged the participants to google a random picture in a couple of minutes that they would think show best how they feel about safe abortion care.

Shown in the picture are individuals in a circle and one person falling out of the circle while another in the earlier group lending hand to bring him back into the group. The participant explained the picture as one that shows how safe abortion care providers go out of the traditional norm to provide the service, and how they should be given a supporting hand for the lives they are saving which would have been lost otherwise. Other pictures selected by participants to represent how they feel about the service they are providing were quite remarkable.

Traditional and religious values influencing the practice of safe abortion care are typical to most places in Ethiopia despite the relatively safer legal support the country provides to the service. Health care workers who provide the service are stigmatized both by the community they are serving and their colleagues.

“Whether we provide the service only impacts how safe the abortion is; it does not affect the prevalence of the practice in any way,” Dr. Ferid Abas, Dr. Tesfaye Hurisa, and Dr. Lemi Belay strongly argue during the workshop.

The aim of the workshop was to create a safe environment and platform for the health care providers to share experiences free of judgment and stigma they face in their daily engagements. The participants shared a lot indeed. The workshop also involved a roleplay wherein participants played an imaginary story of woman who seeks the service and a health care worker who refuses to provide the service and fails to provide the appropriate counseling service.

The workshop was organized by the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) under its project- Strengthening Capacity and Improving Quality of Reproductive Health (Family Planning (FP) and Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC)) and Reducing Stigma on Abortion Care Service Providers. The overall objective of the project is to improve the quality of FP and CAC in the primary health care units to increase service uptake and support the Ministry of Health (MoH) in developing effective de-stigmatization strategies for safe abortion care among health care workers. To achieve this end, the project aims at institutionalizing FP and CAC and newborn health mentorship programs at primary hospitals and health centers through producing Emergency Surgical Officers (ESOs). Strengthening the quality improvement programs in FP, CAC, maternal and child health at primary hospitals and health centers, and reducing stigma and discrimination against abortion care providers are also the objectives of the project.

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and partnering with MoH, regional health bureaus, woreda health offices, hospitals, and health centers, the project will run until July 31, 2021.  

Created: 13 July 2021

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