| Reporting Organization: | SickKids Centre for Global Child Health |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 3,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 30, 2021 - March 31, 2023 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: |
[email protected] |
SickKids Centre for Global Child Health
| Ghana - $ 3,000,000.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (15.00 %) | |
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| Infectious & Communicable Diseases (15.00 %) | |
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| Health Promotion & Education (7.50 %) | |
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| Newborn & Child Health (7.50 %) | |
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| Adolescent Health (2.50 %) | |
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| Mental Health (2.50 %) | |
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| Education (25.00 %) | |
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| Humanitarian Response (15.00 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (10.00 %) | |
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The Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM), Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ghana Ministry of Health, and SickKids, Centre for Global Child Health are continuing the SickKids-Ghana Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership (PNEP) to support the COVID-19 pandemic response in Ghana. COVID-19 has highlighted the critical need for more and better trained health professionals in front-line care delivery to reduce preventable mortality and improve wellbeing for children and their families. The PNEP COVID-19 Response program will focus on strengthening health workers’ preparedness, increasing knowledge, addressing misinformation through community engagement, and promoting best practices related to COVID-19 across Ghana.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | 177,831 |
| Total Indirect Population: | 1,537,500 |
| 1 | Training |
| 1 | Training |
| 1 | Materials |
| 1 | Community Engagement |
The PNEP COVID-19 response program focuses on health system strengthening by using a multi-modal approach to enhance access to quality health care in the context of COVID-19. This is being achieved through four key project activities. Firstly, strengthening health workers preparedness and knowledge through COVID-19 continuing professional development courses, secondly strengthening curriculum around COVID-19 and related topics, thirdly procuring and distributing PPE to maintain safety and finally increasing community knowledge and demystify myths of COVID-19 through community engagement and public health communications campaigns. All activities are being designed and implemented with local partners in Ghana which include Ghana College of Nurses & Midwives (GCNM), Ghana Health Services (GHS), Ghana Ministry of Health.
Results achieved as of the end of the project (April 2023): (1) trained 45,291 health workers (28,926 females and 16,365 males) on COVID-19 through continuing professional development course, online courses in Ghana and some available globally as well as in-person classroom training and a seminar; (2) distributed 371,223 pieces of personal protection equipment to various various faculties of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midviwes health facility including 326,620 surgical masks, 1,411 KN95 masks, 11,058 N95 masks; and (3) reached 177,831 beneficiaries (112,840 females and 64,991 males) through the public health outreach and community engagement activities that addressed misinformation related to COVID-19 and have a specific focus on pregnant women and young girls.
