Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS)’s representation mission in Turkey is holding training workshops and providing technical support for health information management officers in northern Syria.
This comes as part of the Northern Syria Health Information Collection, Analysis and Management System Enhancement Project, implemented by QRCS with funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) under its Quest Health 2020 initiative.
Aimed at developing and upgrading the health system in the northern parts of the country, the project seeks to ensure regular, accurate and realistic reporting that will help monitor, evaluate and identify the major needs of the health sector, QRCS has said in a statement.
The reports will be shared with all partners and stakeholders to improve medical services and create real indicators for prioritised resource allocation.
The training workshops focus on how to combine accumulative reports into comprehensive ones, as well as follow-ups on the DHIS2 system.
The staff of health directorates are trained to extract and track data, spot entry issues and have access to the respective forms to solve them.
In co-ordination with World Health Organisation (WHO), a programmre was developed to detect and follow the health conditions of Covid-19 patients.
Daily reports on these cases are extracted from the overall number of patients, which are then classified (confirmed, suspected, or in close contact) and put under observation.
Also, there will be reports on the bed occupancy rates at hospitals, ICU room occupancy rates and other necessary regular reports to have the big health picture.
These reports will be shared with the Covid-19 team, which consists of the WHO – Turkey office and other health organisations.
A new e-form was developed to follow up on patient referrals between hospitals and health centres, as per the requirements of the Ambulance and Referral Team of health directorates in northern Syria.
This two-year programme is part of the Syrian Women and Children Life-Saving Medical Support Project, together with another program aimed at building the capacity of physicians and health professionals.
The northern governorates of Syria are overpopulated, with more than 4mn residents and internally displaced persons.
They already have many health centres and hospitals, which are managed by different organisations.
So, there is a need to create a unified health information system as a pool for all entries to be organised in a meaningful way, the statement adds.
Aimed at developing and upgrading the health system in the northern parts of the country, the project seeks to ensure regular, accurate and realistic reporting that will help monitor, evaluate and identify the major needs of the health sector, QRCS has said in a statement.
The reports will be shared with all partners and stakeholders to improve medical services and create real indicators for prioritised resource allocation.
The training workshops focus on how to combine accumulative reports into comprehensive ones, as well as follow-ups on the DHIS2 system.
The staff of health directorates are trained to extract and track data, spot entry issues and have access to the respective forms to solve them.
In co-ordination with World Health Organisation (WHO), a programmre was developed to detect and follow the health conditions of Covid-19 patients.
Daily reports on these cases are extracted from the overall number of patients, which are then classified (confirmed, suspected, or in close contact) and put under observation.
Also, there will be reports on the bed occupancy rates at hospitals, ICU room occupancy rates and other necessary regular reports to have the big health picture.
These reports will be shared with the Covid-19 team, which consists of the WHO – Turkey office and other health organisations.
A new e-form was developed to follow up on patient referrals between hospitals and health centres, as per the requirements of the Ambulance and Referral Team of health directorates in northern Syria.
This two-year programme is part of the Syrian Women and Children Life-Saving Medical Support Project, together with another program aimed at building the capacity of physicians and health professionals.
The northern governorates of Syria are overpopulated, with more than 4mn residents and internally displaced persons.
They already have many health centres and hospitals, which are managed by different organisations.
So, there is a need to create a unified health information system as a pool for all entries to be organised in a meaningful way, the statement adds.
