Advocacy for the sustainability of training on public health emergencies in the DRC

Kisantu, February 24, 2023 (ACP) - The Democratic Republic of Congo should make training on the management of public Health emergencies permanent, the Director General of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Dr.

Dieudonné Mwamba said on Thursday during the closing of the first session of this 30-day training in Kisantu in the province of Kongo Central.

“Training is an important activity to be reinforced and repeated at all levels of the Health system throughout the DRC We must put in place the necessary mechanisms to sustain this training at all levels of the country,” said Dr.

Mwamba, satisfied with the results of this training session The next stage of this training, according to the Director General of the INSP will be to carry out advocacy with Congolese decision-makers and the few partners so that by the second half of 2023 another accelerated session will be organized to reach all the critical mass and prepare the country to better respond to any possible epidemic.

“We assure that we have given all our energy for this training for which we have drawn up an action plan which will allow us to react quickly in the event of possible incidents and to activate the Public Health Emergency Operations Center” , affirmed the representative of the participants, Dr Franck Bitilasi of the province of Haut-Katanga.

He indicated that during these thirty days, the participants learned basic and intermediate notions related to the management of public Health emergencies Upon returning to our respective provinces, we must implement this multi-risk action plan, a.

"This accelerated training must be one of the channels for replicating this model at all levels so that this way of managing epidemics becomes modern", indicated the representative of CDC-Atlanta in the DRC, present in this activity, while recalling that it is for the first time CDC-Atlanta organizes a training of three months in one month and that apart from the United States of America For the country representative of the international NGO Johns Hopkins University Affiliate (JHPIEGO), Dr.

Virgile Kikaya Madua, his institution will continue to support the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention and the National Institute of Public Health in improving emergency management for better preparation and better response in the future This residential training session, which was held from January 23 to February 23, 2023, was organized by the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention through the National Institute of Public Health, with the financial support of CDC-Atlanta and executed by JHPIEGO.

Six facilitators fresh from CDC-Atlanta in the USA provided this training The INSP took care to offer a gift to each of them.

Participants received two certificates, one for training in public Health emergency management, and the other for emergency measures It should be noted that this "unprecedented" accelerated training was a successful meeting and an opportunity to reflect deeply on the strategies and on the structural, operational and methodological strategic issues of the management of public Health emergencies that weigh on entire communities, particularly on the Congolese population in relation to endemics, outbreaks, epidemics and other public Health events.

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