Emergency lifesaving health response to flood and cholera-affected populations in Belet Xaawo, Doolow, Luuq districts of Gedo region. ltpgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent text-align: justify line-height: 12.95px" class="TextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"gtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtThis health action is geared towards reducing the vulnerability of AWD/Cholera affected patients and communities in Belet Xaawo, lt/spangtltspan style="background-position-y: 100% background-image: url(" class="SpellingError SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtDoolowlt/spangtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt and Luuq districts of Gedo region. It will provide lifesaving services to populations affected by floods and cholera through quality case management, community-based interventions, as well as?strengthened disease surveillance and response capacity.  The action?will also bridge human resource gaps both at facility (Cholera Treatment Centre - CTC) and community level by recruiting qualified medical staff, paramedical/support, and frontline staff to strengthen the ongoing response efforts by lt/spangtltspan style="background-position-y: 100% background-image: url(" class="SpellingError SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtTrócairelt/spangtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt, MOH and other partners. The action will train?frontline staff involved in the response on key areas like case management, Infection prevention and control (IPC), community health surveillance, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) therein enhancing preventive measures through raising community awareness and promoting communities’ health through hygiene and health promotion. This will facilitate active case detection, case management, strengthening infection prevention and control (IPC) measures both at facility and community level. Further, 3 CTCs will be supported with essentials pharmaceuticals and other medical equipment, with the support extended to 12 Oral Rehydration Points (ORPs) at strategic and accessible locations in the community.  At the CTCs, severely dehydrated Cholera/AWD cases will be admitted and treated, while at the community level the CHWs will be stationed at the ORPs, while doing active case finding, treatment of moderately dehydrated cases with ORS, and pretreatment and referral support for severe cases that need to be admitted in the CTCs. The action will complement (by optimizing existing synergies)?ongoing efforts by the Health and WASH partners in the project locations, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Energy and Water Resource and local administration as well as build on the?gains made, by lt/spangtltspan style="background-position-y: 100% background-image: url(" class="SpellingError SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtTrocairelt/spangtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt and the lt/spangtltspan style="background-position-y: 100% background-image: url(" class="SpellingError SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtCaafimaadlt/spangtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt Plus consortium, through the DG-ECHO funded Health and WASH interventions under the?HIP (Humanitarian Implementation Plan) 2023.  This action will therefore bridge the major essential health care service gap that currently exists in Belet Xaawo, lt/spangtltspan style="background-position-y: 100% background-image: url(" class="SpellingError SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtDoolowlt/spangtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt and Luuq by enhancing access to integrated basic quality health services within their localities aimed to save lives of girls, boys, women, and men in the target locations, by providing both preventive and curative services. lt/spangtlt/spangtltspan style="user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent text-align: justify line-height: 12.95px" class="TextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"gtltspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtAgainst this backdrop, this intervention will set out to reach 32,000 of cholera-affected people: This number being an extrapolation of the population in immediate need based on the aforementioned data.lt/spangtlt/spangtltspan style="user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent text-align: justify line-height: 12.95px" class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtltspan class="SCXW179432721 BCX0"gt  lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent text-align: justify line-height: 12.95px" class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtltspan class="SCXW179432721 BCX0"gtltbrgt
ltspan style="" lang="EN-US"gtDespite the closure of the CTCs, there are still
active AWD cases being reported. The anticipated El-Nino will further exacerbate
the situation therefore, the project will seek to strengthen preventive and
response mechanisms. Trocaire will continue to strengthen community surveillance,
RCCE and ORPs functionality to treat moderate AWD cases at community level and rehabilitate
2 isolation centers in Belet Xaawo and Doolow hospitals to be used for any
outbreak including cholera/AWD, Measles etc. Rehabilitating the isolation centers
in the hospitals will be more cost effective and sustainable. In Luuq due to
space challenge, the rehabilitation of isolation center is not possible. As
part of El nino preparedness, through proposed modification, Trocaire will strengthen
coordination through monthly with other stakeholders (emergency response team,
village health committees and CHWs). The meetings will ensure the adoption of a
strong El Nino early warning and reporting system at all levels, provide timely
feedback to community structures and facility level staff and enhance surveillance
and response capacities of the stakeholders. Trocaire, will also preposition cholera
kits and essential medical/non-medical supplies in anticipation of the El Nino
and the consequent outbreak.lt/spangt



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