Health
06 nov 2009
Objectives
- Improved quality of training of health workers, at higher staff level, and expand in-country and foreign post graduation internships in medical specialties.
- Better interface of health areas with others of public interest (e.g. HIV/Aids and water and sanitation).
Benchmark of the present status
There is a double obstacle to be dealt with:
- a huge lack of skilled health workers and management staff;
- the capacity of the training institutions to attain the country''s health necessities.
Medium Term outcomes (4 years)
- Student centred methodologies are applied in health training programmes at academic and polytechnic level.
- Post-graduation courses in medical specialities (such as hospital management) have expanded.
- Programmes considering the interfaces STD/HIV-Aids en Gender (including laboratory technologies) and water & health in implementation.
- Tropical medicine course started at Bachelor/Master level.
- At least one summer course for intermediate level health staff has been organized.
Longer Term outcomes (8 years)
- Sustained quality of health education to deliver sufficient and competent health workers.
- There has been an increase in the number of (medical) staff with intermediate to higher qualifications in relevant specialities.
- Professional training institutions have sufficient skills and in-country capacity to train new health workers.
