Transcript 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
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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
Thank You