The Paul Corréa Health Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary last Saturday, but also its aluminas from 2009 to 2023, which number 276 recipients. Today, he is awaiting the results of the survey of establishments with ANAQ-Sup for accreditation which will allow him to join the six other health schools. The director of the said establishment, Babacar Guèye, said he was confident for the future.
The Paul Corréa Health Institute, based in Dakar, trains state nurses and midwives. This establishment was 20 years old this year and has produced 276 healthcare providers, some of whom work abroad. Last Saturday, the leaders of this school paid tribute to the founder, Marième Sidibé, while celebrating the outgoing classes. For the director of the establishment, Babacar Guèye: “ those who are there today number around a hundred, to honor in any case their establishment which trained them, and also to honor the 20th anniversary of Paul Corréa ».
For the director, training at the level of this institute follows what are called the sectors dictated by the curricula of the African Health Organization (Oas). “It is an establishment which trains state nurses, state midwives, nursing assistants, and which intends to open up to other sectors such as medical delegation, dental assistant and childcare assistant “, he said. Returning to the certification of their training, Mr. Guèye provided information: “ it is an establishment that has ambition. We have been the subject of a survey of establishments with the National Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education, Research and Innovation (ANAQ-Sup), we do not yet have the results , but we hope that they will be favorable to us, because the school has made many changes in the direction of improving the quality of training, of improving the quality of supervision with luminaries. »
He also largely discussed the difficulties concerning authorization and accreditation for the establishment. “ Authorization and accreditation between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Vocational Training and the Ministry of Higher Education are the difficulties facing health establishments. Many foreigners are here in Senegal and want to register with us for a license, but they tend to ask for authorized, accredited schools, and at this level, there are few schools today accredited, authorized, compared to around forty establishments which are at the level of Dakar. And we believe that the results of the audit will have to transform this situation a lot and in any case ensure that establishments which are in line with OAS standards can have the authorization and accreditation to be able to award licenses, and allow students to progress, because they are young, they have their state diploma, they want to have their state diploma and have the possibility of continuing this training, a master’s degree, a doctorate, because that all the sectors of nursing today are open so that these students, from the baccalaureate, who register for a license, register for a master’s and for a doctorate, and for an aggregation even in terms of sciences nurses, because it exists in other countries ».
The dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, Professor Bara Ndiaye who came to attend the ceremony maintained: “the Paul Corréa school was a reference school”. Commenting on the quality of teaching in training schools, he said: “At this level, the State has taken matters into its own hands. Recently, all schools, even the Faculty of Medicine, were subject to an evaluation by the ANAQ-Sup. The State wants to ensure that the training conditions are good and that the schools which are involved in training are authorized to do so, but also that the programs which are provided, the teaching programs, are recognized and adapted to the market needs”.
DENISE ZAROUR MEDANG
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