Dakar January 21 (APS) – The Secretary General of the Ministry of Health and Social Action, Serigne Mbaye, insisted on Tuesday on the importance of the practical phase in the training of midwives and nurses.
”Training structures at national and regional level and the private sector are making efforts to improve academic training but the training cannot be complete if it is not accompanied by a practical phase which should even take over”, said Mr. Mbaye.
He was speaking at the closing workshop of the Midwives and Nurses Clinical Internship Improvement Project (AQSIS) implemented by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency in Senegal ( JICA).
Returning to the importance of training among health sector personnel, Mr. Mbaye affirmed that “a quality health offer certainly rhymes with modern infrastructure but also, above all, with quality human resources.”
According to him, a health worker who leaves a training school must immediately be operational, hence the importance of the AQSIS project which for three years tried to improve what already existed in terms of tools. but also, to develop new tools which have truly made it possible to facilitate training and to articulate what is happening in the schools where the internships take place.
The Director of Human Resources of the Ministry of Health and Social Action, Dr Malick Diallo, indicated that ”the AQSIS project comes at its right time due to the noted drop in level of students from health training schools ”.
He recalled that the project aimed to train these students by providing them with suitable documents and also at the same time train the supervisors of health centers and structures.
“To do this, JICA made eleven documents available to us, and also helped us train trainers who are in schools and health training centers in the country,” he announced.
-As for Muraoka Takayuki, first deputy to the resident representative of JICA in Senegal, he recalled the objective of the AQSIS project which aims not only to strengthen human resources among midwives but also among nurses.
The project has greatly contributed to the development of the quality of human resources in the field of health, he praised.
Launched in April 2022 for a period of three years, the AQSIS project will end in March 2025. Its objective was to properly train health providers with enhanced practical skills in the regions of Dakar and Thiès.
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