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GDF Medics Get Safe Injection Training

Mar 25, 2010 News

Sixteen medics from the Medical Corps underwent two days of intensive training at Base Camp Ayanganna from Thursday March 18 in Injection Safety and Waste Management Practices.
This training is part of a countrywide Safer Injection Project being administered and supported by the Ministry of Health and USAID, respectively. The project is designed to prevent the medical transmission of HIV and other blood- borne diseases via safe and appropriate injections.
Workshop facilitator, Mandy LaFleur, explained that the main objective of the training is to make the health care workers aware of the risks to which they are exposed and the necessary precautions to reduce them.
Additionally, participants reviewed a number of related issues, including disease transmission, admission of safe infection, management of sharps waste and procurement and logistics of injections.
La Fleur said that research has shown that annually, 20 million Hepatitis C and 260,000 HIV infections are due to unsafe injection practices, hence the need for such training.
At the end of the workshop, the medics agreed that the refresher training was timely, necessary and beneficial.

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