Qatar- QRCS trains nurses and midwives

2/2/2016 9:52:57 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) An expert from Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) office in Turkey conducts training for nurses and midwives at the Union of Syrian Civil Society Organisations in Bab Alhawa Turkey

DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) office in Turkey organised a course on Neonatal Resuscitation Programme (NRP) to develop scientific skills and experience of the personnel of QRCS health projects in Syria and medical institutions.

Held at the Union of Syrian Civil Society Organisations in Bab Alhawa Turkey the two-day course was directed to the nurses and midwives working at obstetrics and gynaecology departments to update them on NRP techniques.

The course was attended by 72 midwives and nurses including 23 from QRCS’s health care centres in Syria and 10 from partners such as the Syrian American Medical Society the Syrian Expatriate Medical Association International Humanitarian Relief and others. There were also 39 nurses from the Academy of Medical Sciences Eastern Ghouta Rif Dimashq who attended the training via videoconference.

Significant topics were discussed including NRP basics initiation of resuscitation nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) closed chest cardiac massage endotracheal intubation use of drugs in resuscitation and ethical issues of resuscitation.

At the end of the course the participants received NRP training certificates. Such courses give medical and technical personnel a lot of skills and knowledge introduced by latest scientific research and journals in the world enhancing their experience and proficiency.

Neonatal asphyxia is responsible for 20 percent of overall neonatal mortality rate. Death from birth asphyxia is avoidable; the few earliest moments of a newborn’s life are decisive in its future as a healthy disabled or dead person. The course was crucial for the trainees to integrate NRP best practices in their work. It was also part of QRCS’s efforts to support the health sector in Syria by building the capacity of medics at local health facilities and in relief organisations.

Last December QRCS held a course on Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) for 30 trainees from 17 humanitarian agencies in northern Syria and another course of nine lectures on the International Humanitarian Law and the International Human Rights Law and their link to the Shariah. The course was attended by 20 trainees from QRCS and Syrian NGOs working in Gaziantep. The Peninsula

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