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- A "name and shame" project was implemented where the staff person responsible for incomplete or outdated files would be announced each day. This continued for six months.
- The approach was successful, reducing incomplete files mentioned each day from an average of 25 to only 1-2 files within three months. TB screening and medical data collection improved to 95% of files.
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34-63% of counties have maternal health tracer drugs but 18-39% of child health tracer drugs available
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Kisumu, Kisii, Vihiga, and Siaya consistently top third in drug availability
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First-line drugs for HIV
ACT, first line treatment for malaria
4FDC, intensive treatment for tuberculosis
Metformin, preferred OGLA treatment for diabetes
The company has the following services under care and treatment:
HTC services
ART services
Counselling services
PMCT
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Home-based care services
Support group.
These services are offered for free to both employees and community members. The company also offers outpatient services which charges consultation fee, lab charges and medication for non-employees.
KNBTS estimates Kenya’s annual need for blood to be 200,000-250,000 units annually.
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There is a deficit of about 40,000-90,000 units annually.
However WHO recommends 10-20 units of blood per 1000 population.
Kenya population (2009) was 38,610 097* which would put Kenya’s need to a minimum of 380,000 units annually.
One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
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Alongside the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 28 May 2024, we launched the second version of our Index, allowing us to track progress and give new insights into what needs to be done to keep populations healthier for longer.
The speakers included:
Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
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Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
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3. BACKGROUND
• Documentation is a process of providing evidence. Nine Quarters that is 24 months back to be precise the clinic had a big
problem with documentation. Patients’ files were not being well updated and it was a challenge in tracing patients. the main
areas focused on include:
• TB intensive case finding form the percentage was at 2% out of the total active patients on care.
• The Medical data form for active patients was at 40%.This made the medical Officer to come up with a way forward of
dividing all active files to staffs to update the medical data. This was a tiring exercise especially for old files, there were a lot
of forms to be updated.
• It took staffs three months to update the forms.
• This was discussed during one of the CQI meeting, and a strategy was invented. It was called “NAME AND SHAME
PROJECT’
OBJECTIVES
• To get the TB Intensive case finding from 2% to 95%
• Patients medical data form updated after every patients visit from 40% to 95%
4. • During routine data entry , the SI Person does file evaluation in each file.
• Files which are not fully documented or updated mostly the three areas, are put aside.
• The SI person analyses the files and makes a list of staffs responsible.
• During daily meetings, the SI person announces the staffs responsible in documenting a specific file.
For example. Kioko had 3 files TB ICF not documented. After the meeting ,the responsible staffs collects files from the Data
Office to document or note the file during patients’ next visit. This happened on daily basis for six months. The first
month an average of about 25 files were seen, this reduced to two, one or zero files in a day by third month of the exercise.
METHODOLOGY
6. • Data summary form is currently updated for all active patients on care. This is from 60% to 95% by
March 2014 it was 94%:
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7. CONCLUSION
• The aim for these findings was to ensure that all HIV positive patients on care are screened for TB during every visit they
make to the clinic.
• To ensure that patients file documentation is up to date so as to help monitor the progress of the patients. This will easen in
follow ups for priority patients.
RECOMMENDATION
• Make sure all staffs understand the reason for various documentation and necessity for documentation.
• The SI person ‘s responsibility to feedback the staffs on documentation progress on DAILY basis because doing it
daily is manageable.