Fondation PH Suisse is a Swiss Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) dedicated to Partnerships in Health, providing health education and training for the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

FORMER YUGOSLAVIAN REPUBLIC OF Macedonia

Current Programmes

Western Balkans Programme to fight HIV - Phase I (Completed 2010)
 

Resources :
Factsheet (112Kb)
Pictures Gallery of pictures
Links Dedicated website on this programme

 

 

 

Child-friendly Hospital Initiative (on-going)

Based on a pilot training performed together with staff from The John Hopkins University Child Life Center, we have developed this regional approach.  Medical interventions and hospitalisations are traumatic events for children and their families, especially when medical staff is not trained to work with children. It is common in the Balkans region that children are separated from their parents at hospitalisation, that they are restrained for invasive procedures, that their care is not explained to them, and that the child’s continuous need for play and education is not met in the hospital setting. To help hospitals to become child- and family-friendly, FPH has started a new initiative for health care workers to help them apply child development principles and effective treatment techniques in the care of their young patients.

A pilot course was conducted in 2008, and in 2010, staff from the Kozle Institute and from General Hospital Kumanovo, Macedonia took part in a regional trainer course.

Resources :
Factsheet (112Kb)

 

The Kozle Institute for Respiratory Diseases in Children  (completed 2008)

Resources :
Factsheet (139Kb)
Pictures Gallery of pictures

 

 

 

Improvements in the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia - completed 2003

 

The Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia is facing many economic and political challenges during the post-conflict situation. Among these challenges is the establishment of a functioning primary health care system to address the most basic needs of its population.  Chronic diseases, e.g., cardiovascular illnesses present additional unmet challenges. 

 


Program achievements:

  • Professor Juan Sztajzel, medical consultant, University Hospital of Geneva conducted a needs assessment of the Institute of Heart Disease in Skopje, December 2001.
  • A Diagnostic Ultrasound machine was shipped and installed in Skopje, and the clinics’ cardiologists, nurses and technicians trained.
  • A 24/48 hour ECG monitoring Holter System was donated by Philips Medical Systems. The system allows 6 patients to be monitored at one time, resulting in considerably shortened waiting lists.
  • A Symposium titled "News in Cardiology" held in Ohrid during March 2003 was attended by over 90 cardilogists and internists from around the country.

 

 

 

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This page was last updated on 28/07/2010