Italian knitted fabric manufacturer takes part in MSF Academy project at Kenema Hospital in Sierra Leone, assisting in the reduction of sickness and fatality rates.
Eurojersey, the Italian manufacturer of the Delicate Fabrics trademark, is sustaining Doctors Without Borders’ Medical Academy Project and the Kenema Hospital in this year of the organization’s 50th anniversary.
The corporation contributes and helps to the education of tomorrow’s doctors and nurses, notably assisting the obstetrics and nurses school. Personnel participating in the MSF Academy for Healthcare programme are trained at Kenema Hospital, one of thirteen regional MSF health centers in Sierra Leone. The hospital has state-of-the-art pediatric care centers, an emergency department, an intensive care unit, a hospital therapeutic nutrition centre, an isolated ward for clinically suspected Lassa fever, and a laboratory and blood bank.
The purpose is to minimize morbidity and mortality in children and women during pregnancy and childbirth in a country with the worst rates of maternal and newborn mortality in the world.
The project’s goal is to provide specialised training for regional medical and nursing staff in order to ensure that patients are cared for in accordance with proper standards of quality, as well as to create a new generation of local medical and paramedical personnel who will be able to manage clinics and hospitals on their own in the coming years. Currently, Doctors Without Borders collaborates with expatriate employees.
