In 2024
CUAMM’s work in the Central African Republic continued in 2024. Support was provided to Bangui Pediatric Hospital, contributing to operational costs, drugs, staff incentives, maintenance and hygiene. The objective was to improve clinical assistance, ensuring the presence of expert staff for training, and managerial capacities, and to reinforce human resources, materials and data collection. The hospital acts as a training center for the staff of other facilities, especially in neonatology.
Moreover, CUAMM supported the training of peripheral medical personnel for the development of public-private non-profit services. To this end, we offered assistance to 11 healthcare centers managed by religious congregations in the form of a five-day training course on service management (including data collection and the use of the national information system) and the importance of providing health services that comply with qualitative standards on the prevention and control of infections. In addition, CUAMM carried out supervision visits to four of these structures to identify and resolve their main organizational issues. In one case, CUAMM directly intervened to improve the infrastructure of the center.
Outside of the capital, our work at Bossangoa Hospital was focused on support for maternity and neonatology vis-a-vis the provision of staff, covering costs, renovating the unit and aiming to reduce infant-maternal mortality through awareness raising in the local community, a referral system and free treatments. The result was a sharp increase in attended deliveries. CUAMM also supported the construction of the new local paramedical school to ensure the availability of qualified personnel over the long term.
In the districts of Bossangoa, Bangassou and Ouango Gambo, CUAMM manages the Performance-Based Financing system (supported by the EU and the World Bank), supervising 59 healthcare facilities and providing financing according to the quantity and quality of services provided. The scope is to provide free care for the most vulnerable. In the Bocaranga-Koui district, our work focused on the prevention of acute malnutrition and basic and emergency healthcare (free and high quality) for marginalized people, supporting Koui Hospital and 4 peripheral centers with staff, materials, funds, transportation management and awareness-raising in the community (including protection topics via local NGOs). Moreover, Doctors with Africa CUAMM collaborates with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on operational research on the quality of neonatal care in 21 healthcare structures in three different regions in the country.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
July 2018
Intervention begun at Bangui’s pediatric complex.
August 2018
Giovanni Putoto, CUAMM’s Head of Planning, meets with Central African Republic’s President Faustin-Archange Touadéra at launch of project to support Children’s Hospital in Bangui, funded in part by European Commission’s Bêkou Trust Fund.
April 2019
Project Head Stefano Vicentini presents project activities and data from Children’s Hospital in Bangui to Central African Republic’s National Assembly.
November 2019
Visit by Pierre Somse, Central African Republic’s Health Minister, and Stefano Manservisi, Director-General of DEVCO, to Children’s Hospital in Bangui.
December 2019
European Commission’s Bêkou Trust Fund renews its confidence in CUAMM and Action Contre la Faim (ACF), making it possible to continue partnership and activities with Children’s Hospital in Bangui for another year.
2021
In partnership with OCHA, Bangui health referral system’s eight ambulances made continuously operational.
2022
Launch of the third phase of the “Mothers and Children First” program: “People and Skills”.
