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Fourty-nine tutors from 16 Midwifery and 12 Community Health Nursing Training Schools in Ghana have undergone skills and knowledge training on infection prevention and control for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

This is to help them train their students to be prepared to work effectively in the event of an outbreak of the disease in the country.

The training program which was held concurrently in Tamale, Cape Coast and Kumasi drew seventeen tutors from the Northern regions, sixteen (16) from the middle belt and eighteen (18) from the Southern sector.

The program being implemented by Jhpiego, an International, nonprofit health organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health is designed to strengthen frontline health staff and curricula of the midwifery and community Health training schools in Ghana.

Under the program funded by the US Agency for international Development (USAID), Jhplego will ensure that frontline health care workers are given the required knowledge and skills on infection prevention and control of Ebola Virus Disease through its evidence based and recognition training model.

Credit: BBC