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Rotary Club: Del Mar Project Title: Neonatal Training Equipment 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? Dr. Kassahun Belachew participated in GG 1525173, Saving Babies Lives in Ethiopia, which developed a training of trainers program for doctors, nurses, and midwives in life-saving neonatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital in Gondar, Ethiopia. GG 1525173 was an amazing success, training over 70 instructors who in turn trained over 800 providers in techniques of neonatal resuscitation and post resuscitation care of seriously ill newborns. Dr. Kassahun is now head of the Pediatric program at the JFD Memorial Regional Referral Hospital, Tappita City, Nimba County, Republic of Liberia. He plans to develop a similar training program in neonatal resuscitation and basic respiratory care of the newborn for medical providers in his new training Hospital in Liberia. At the University of Gondar Hospital, he led an ongoing training program for 5 years, serving as Course Coordinator for the Global Grant and he is well-versed in all the didactic and administrative skills needed for such a program. However, he needed training equipment to initiate this desperately needed program. There were no funds available at the hospital to purchase the training equipment. This District Grant provided training equipment for resuscitation and basic respiratory care of newborns to allow Dr. Kassahun to initiate a training program at the JFD Hospital in Liberia. The resuscitation equipment was purchased through Laerdal Medical and shipped from Norway directly to Liberia. A Newborn Nursing Skills Simulator was purchased in the US and hand carried by a member of We Care Foundation traveling from the US to Liberia. The equipment is already in use. Building on a previous successful Global Grant this project represents a testament to the power of training of trainer programs through The Rotary Foundation and continued this important work in another under served area of the world 2. How many people benefited from this project? 65 plus current future trainees and infants requiring resuscitation 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? 40 nurses involved with newborn care were trained in basic neonatal resuscitation and nursing skills. 25 newborns have required basic or advanced resuscitation with the techniques taught with the training equipment. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 2 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. DMRC Rotarian Dr. Karin Davies worked with neonatologist Dr. Patricia Bromberger and Dr. Kassahun to choose the equipmnt needed for the project, ordered and tracked the shipment and documented receipt. PDG Marty Peters helped to identify an individual traveling from the US to Monrovia, Liberia who was willing to carry the Nasco Nursing Skills Simulator as checked luggage, thus saving shipping fees. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? Dr. Kassahun, Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at JFD Memorial Hospital in Tappita City, Liberia received the training equipment, designed and taught the training program in newborn resuscitation techniques and basic respiratory care of ill newborns. 7. Income
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