{"id":1309,"date":"2014-04-28T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T06:41:31","slug":"humanitarian-services-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/humanitarian-services-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian services on leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u00ab\u00a0Medics without Vacation (MWV)\u00a0\u00bb are involved and active wherever they go though they are named like this. Enhancing hospital partners\u2019 capacities is the noble objective of the Belgian Organization.<\/strong>–By Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n

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The family picture of some physicians of\u00ab Medics without Vacation\u201d.\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn some areas of the world there were people who didn\u2019t get access to high- quality health care. Realizing this issue, a humanitarian mission to help those people was set up not only to offer care to patients but also to strengthen the physicians\u2019 capacities with the 2014-2016 new approach,\u201d declares Dr Marcellin Kash Karubara, Local Representative of MWV in the region of East Congo, Burundi and Rwanda. He adds that the ultimate goal of their programme is to help their partners be autonomous and play their role independently in health sector at national level. Dr Marcellin expresses that during their mission, they respect national health policies within the African context or other partner countries while focusing on their specific needs. \u201cWe operate in 5 countries where human development indicator is weak like Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. Our first beneficiaries of the intervention are no longer the population in general but nurses, medical technicians and assistants as well as physicians. In return, the beneficiaries will care for the population,\u201d highlights Dr Marcellin. He goes on saying that in Burundi, MWV work with partner hospitals of Muyinga, Muramvya, Ijenda (Bujumbura province), Kamenge Neuropsychiatric Center and the Akamuri Center. Dr Marcellin states that their partners appreciate their mission though they sometimes face some obstacles. \u201cWe strengthen capacities to local medical staff. But the main problem we face is the medical staff mobility. Today, you work with this staff and when you come back to complete the mission, you find the people transferred or moved elsewhere, then it\u2019s an obstacle for us,\u201d says Dr Marcellin.<\/p>\n

Burundians should develop their country<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fagnoul Marilyne, Emergency Physician in Belgium states that it\u2019s up to Burundians to develop themselves. What they need is to be enhanced on technical competences and work in a good environment because the human resources are there. \u201cIf we enhance capacities, they will have skills and we give them donations of medical equipment to help them work in a wonderful environment with the hope to get successful results. They are courageous, so, it\u2019s up to them to show up what they are able to,\u201d declares Fagnoul. Ernest Nintunze, a nurse in surgery room in Belgium states that Burundian medical staff be encouraged to evolve in terms of hospital hygiene research. \u201cThe government of Burundi must participate to improve hygiene in hospitals. There is a lack of national policy on hygiene in hospitals and also the shortage of disinfection byproducts. Then, it must improve on that domain and also motivate the medical staff,\u201d concludes Nintunze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u00ab\u00a0Medics without Vacation (MWV)\u00a0\u00bb are involved and active wherever they go though they are named like this. Enhancing hospital partners\u2019 capacities is the noble objective of the Belgian Organization.–By Yves Didier Irakoze \u201cIn some areas of the world there were people who didn\u2019t get access to high- quality health care. Realizing this issue, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[411,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}