By Dr Yoseph Mamo | Project Leader
Mentoring and hands on training to health centre nurses
The attached picture shows mentoring and training on the prevention and care for the foot in a 50 year old Type 2 diabetic lady being conducted by health centre nurses.
The training is taking place at the Koladiba health center, in the southwest Gondar area, in northern Ethiopia. Many diabetic patients still present at the centre with complications of diabetes such as advanced retinopathy (resulting in serious compromise to their sight), hypertension and foot ulcers at various stages. Techniques in careful follow up and regular examination of the foot, as well asteaching patients how to observe changes on a daily basis, comprise some of the training provided to health centre nurses during supportive supervision and mentoring visits by physicians and senior nurses from Gondar Teaching Hospital. If such messages are not delivered by nurses to empower patients on how to protect their feet, patients may neglect small wounds which in turn result in severe infection. If neglected, such infections can progress to gangrene and loss of the limb.
All patients with Type 2 diabetes are also referred to Gondar chronic disease clinic where retinal photographs are taken to screen for retinopathy, and where referrals are made for laser therapy to mitigate advanced damages to the eye. Picture 2
By Dr Yoseph Mamo | Project Leader
By Dr Yoseph Mamo | Physician in Charge
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