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Tanzanian Clubfoot Care Organization (TCCO): Enhancing Treatment Across the Country

Join TCCO, a collaborative initiative founded in 2014, striving to ensure all clubfoot children in Tanzania receive timely, quality treatment. Explore the vision, mission, objectives, and challenges faced in providing essential care. Discover the administrative team and future plans for sustainability and growth.

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Tanzanian Clubfoot Care Organization (TCCO): Enhancing Treatment Across the Country

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  1. Tanzania Clubfoot Care Organization (TCCO) By Dr. Rachel Nungu. TCCO coordinator

  2. TCCO HISTORY • -Collaboration from BCCP,URRC,CCBRT,Mnazi Mmoja Hospital(Zanzibar) • First Meeting February 2014 -Dar es salaam • 2nd meeting -February 2015 • Support fom Miraclefeet

  3. VISION • To ensure every child with clubfoot in Tanzania receive timely and quality treatment using PM as a gold standard treatment hence providing them with equal opportunities to lead active and productive lives. • MISSION; To ensure all Clubfoot Children in Tanzania have access to quality treatment they deserve within recommended time

  4. OBJECTIVES • Advancement of clubfoot treatment across Tanzania -promotion -media,quality training sites • Development of Best practices for parent education and Community outreach • To develop guidelines for best practices for treatment of all clufoot children • To develop advocacy strategies to lobby for policy in support of clubfoot treatment at all administrtive levels • Initiation of a study to determine Clubfoot incidence rate in the country

  5. ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM • Chairperson- Dr Robert Mhina • Vice chairperson- Dr Isidor Ngayomela • Secretary- PT.Emmanuel Kowero • Treasurer/Coordinator- Dr Rachel Nungu • Executive committee-Salim Ali Dr Prospe Alute Board Member- Mathew Shayo

  6. STRENGH • Increased number of clubfoot patients at existing clinics • Expanding /Establishing more clinics • Standardized patient records • Over 70 providers trained in the PM across the country • Local production of braces • Mandated free care for children under age five at public/government-supported hospitals • Good national dialogue and improving collaboration between Ponseti providers nationally, facilitated by TCCO

  7. CHALLENGES • Inadequate number of providers, regionally and nationally, trained in PM • Insufficient government funding for treatment supplies • Lack of governmental policy concerning the treatment of clubfoot • Wide-spread poverty, making it difficult for patients to access treatment • Stigma associated with clubfoot and lack of general public awareness • Insufficient data on clubfoot in certain regions and zones • Difficulties with data collection and communication from remote clinics • Administrative support exceeds current need • Providers working in isolation without opportunities to learn, share, and collaborate

  8. FUTURE PLANS FOR TCCO • To be SUSTAINABLE • Link with MOH and the Gorvenment in General • Ensure PM is gold standard for treatment- curiculums,trainings, • Increase community awareness of clubfoot and its treatment

  9. THANK YOU

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