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