Enhancing Healthcare in Zambia: Collaborative Projects for Sustainable Impact

1. - Link to Ndola • Ndola Central Hospital • Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital

2. Where?

3. Overview of Projects • Cross Cutting • Biomedical Engineering • Patient Safety and Infection Control • Information Technology and Communications

4. Overview of Projects • Hospital Specific • Women’s Health – reducing maternal mortality • Nursing – Critical Care and General Paediatrics • Paediatric ITU Developments • Paediatric ENT and Haematology

5. Work THE Zambian way • Understand Zambia • Understand the resource constraints • Understand the different disease burdens • Respect the more formal approach to work. • Respect the hospital and policitical hierarchies • Work with Zambian time

6. Rebase your reference away from the UK

7. Working in zambia – strategic approach • Listen to the priorities of your link hospitals • Listen to the Ministry of Health Strategy • Listen to International Strategy • Work with these to support local and national priorities.

8. Example – Biomedical Engineering • National Priority – Page 61 of the NHSP “Medical Equipment – Review, update and implement the capital investment plan: strengthen capacity for management and maintenance of medical equipment, including staffing, training and appropriate facilities • Ndola Priority • Bottom Up – equipment inventory, understanding what is possible • Laboratory development and support • Training

9. Working in zambia – practical approach • Get to know your link hospital really well • Listen to what they believe will work • Build relationships and trust – visit, have a presence, do what you promise. • Always communicate, all of the time • Always listen, all of the time • Promote your work in Zambia and in the UK – link up with other UK centres • Do things together, as a two country team, learn from each other, grow respect

10. THANK YOU