Monrovia – Jhpiego, a globally acknowledged non-governmental group affiliated with Johns Hopkins College, has donated over 15 units of Laerdal Emergency Care studying labs and Primary Care coaching supplies to the Liberia Board for Nursing and Midwifery (LBNM).
The donation is part of Jhpiego’s long-standing dedication to constructing the capability of Liberia’s frontline healthcare workforce.
These important supplies are anticipated to strengthen the flexibility of the Board to offer high-quality, hands-on coaching to nurses and midwives, notably in emergency response conditions.
Talking on the official turning-over ceremony held in Monrovia, Jhpiego Nation Program Supervisor, Madam Lauretta Nagbe, described the donation as a crucial funding within the nation’s healthcare infrastructure.
“Since 2008, Jhpiego has labored intently with the Authorities of Liberia to strengthen the capability of frontline well being employees, notably nurses and midwives, who’re the spine of our healthcare system,” Madam Nagbe said.
She additional famous that the supplies, that are valued at US$10,894.70, aren’t merely coaching instruments however a long-term funding in sustainable schooling {and professional} improvement for Liberia’s nursing workforce.
“This donation is extra than simply gear,” she mentioned. “It represents our unwavering dedication to constructing a resilient and responsive well being system via steady studying {and professional} development.”
In keeping with Madam Nagbe, the “Nurses Taking Our SEAT” challenge has already skilled thirty-one healthcare employees and efficiently validated a Nursing Management Toolkit—a useful resource will improve the management capabilities of Liberian nurses nationwide.
She expressed confidence that the newly donated emergency care lab will considerably contribute to bettering the standard of emergency medical providers offered throughout the nation.
Receiving the gear on behalf of the Liberia Board for Nursing and Midwifery, LBNM Chairperson, Mr. Humphrey Gibbs Loweal, praised Jhpiego for its constant help to Liberia’s well being sector, notably within the space of nursing and midwifery coaching.
Mr. Loweal described the donation as well timed and impactful, noting that it’ll go a good distance in shaping the way forward for Primary Emergency Care coaching in Liberia.
“We’re deeply grateful to Jhpiego for this crucial help,” he mentioned. “These supplies will allow us to higher put together nurses and midwives to reply successfully to medical emergencies—particularly in rural and underserved communities the place entry to superior care is proscribed.”
He added that the donation aligns with the Board’s imaginative and prescient to enhance the usual of nursing and midwifery schooling via sensible, competency-based studying.
“Our long-standing partnership with Jhpiego has helped remodel nursing and midwifery schooling in Liberia,” Mr. Loweal added. “By way of coaching, mentoring, and gear, Jhpiego continues to contribute to a stronger, extra environment friendly healthcare system.”
Mr. Loweal assured the gathering that the donated gear shall be correctly utilized and maintained to make sure lasting advantages for the nation’s healthcare supply system.
He additional inspired different companions to emulate Jhpiego’s instance by investing in healthcare schooling and capability constructing.
Emergency care stays a crucial hole in Liberia’s well being system, notably on the neighborhood and first healthcare ranges.
Restricted entry to lifesaving interventions usually ends in preventable deaths throughout obstetric emergencies, highway accidents, and acute sicknesses.
The Laerdal Emergency Care studying labs, which embody superior manikins, simulation fashions, and educating guides, are anticipated to considerably enhance the sensible coaching of nurses and midwives in emergency care strategies comparable to resuscitation, trauma dealing with, airway administration, and maternal issues.
These fashions shall be used regularly by the LBNM to coach and assess nursing and midwifery college students’ emergency care expertise, and with practising nurses and midwives.
Jhpiego’s donation comes at a time when international well being consultants are calling for elevated investments in frontline healthcare employees, particularly in low-resource nations.
Liberia, with a fragile well being system nonetheless recovering from the impression of the Ebola epidemic and now contending with rising well being threats, stands to learn immensely from such partnerships.
Since 2008, Jhpiego has been working in shut partnership with the Authorities of Liberia and the nursing and midwifery associations. Together with strengthening pre-service schooling, helping in strengthening instructional accreditation and maternal and new child well being packages, HIV prevention and remedy, malaria management, and the rebuilding of the well being system, with a concentrate on facility knowledge, post-ebola.
Jhpiego has since dedicated to supporting Liberia’s well being workforce via sustained collaboration with nationwide establishments such because the Liberia Board for Nursing and Midwifery.
