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The child refugee 24 May 2016 Westminster London
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Advancing child health in Kenya’s slum settlements The RCPCH Global team, in collaboration with the Kenya Paediatric Association, has secured almost £100,000 from the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission to implement a 12month capacity-building programme in Nairobi, Kenya starting in April 2016.
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The new project is built on lessons learnt from the successful delivery of a three-year Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment Plus programme (ETAT+) in six hospitals in Kenya, from which it was agreed that the best way forward would be to extend the intervention by building referral linkages to the most vulnerable communities. The proposed intervention will be delivered at Mbagathi Hospital, one of Nairobi’s busiest referral hospitals, and at four smaller healthcare facilities located in Africa’s largest slum settlement, Kibera. There has been
considerable social and economic progress in Kenya in the last two decades, including significant advances in health policy and care. However infant and under-five mortality in the capital city’s major slums is still more than double the Nairobi average and, strikingly, greater than for rural Kenya. This RCPCH programme will aim to reinforce quality of care at both referral and community levels, through the implementation of ETAT+ training and refresher courses, the dissemination of ETAT+ guidelines, and quality improvement initiatives (including CME and mentorship). All to enhance access to good quality emergency care and improve referral pathways for the poorest inhabitants of Nairobi. For more information contact: Marie.Bontoux@ rcpch.ac.uk MARIE BONTOUX International Programme Coordinator