WOTE: January 18, 2023
Jhpiego President Leslie Mancuso and her two Vice Presidents Deborah Bossemeyer and Wendy Taylor on today toured Makueni for an appraisal of the impact of joint projects with the county government on health matters.
The team led by Jhpiego Country Director-Kenya Stephen Mutwiwa and other technical officers was hosted by Deputy Governor Lucy Mulili in Wote where they toured several projects’ beneficiaries.
Jhpiego has collaborated with Makueni to develop systems that save lives and guarantee healthier futures for women and their families through multiple projects and partners.These include:
1. The Gates-funded Advance Family planning (AFP) to ensure access to quality family planning through evidence-based advocacy.
2. Working with the Gates-supported Antenatal Postnatal Research Collective (ARC) project, Makueni County has integrated Network of Care (NoCs) into services delivery. NoCs are a system where public and/or private health facilities deliberately interconnect through an administrative and clinical management model to increases the timeliness of referral processes for Maternal and Neonatal Health complications.
3. Obstetric Safe Surgery project, supported by Johnson and Johnson which trained more than 80 healthcare providers who are members of surgical teams, leads in charge of maternity and subcounty Reproductive Health coordinators to perform safe, timely caesarean sections.
4. Building on the clinical, community and data management skills from the Obstetric Safe Surgery project, the county and Jhpiego leveraged Proximie technology— a virtual dial in where senior surgeons support surgeries without being in the hospital physically— to review gaps in service provision for surgeries and charted actions taken.
5. The Life after Birth project is working with Makueni to introduce quality-assured drugs for excessive bleeding after birth (Heat-stable Carbetocin, tranexamic acid and misoprostol) to Kenya.
6. Obstetric Fistula project, where Makueni seeks to eradicate fistula through creating awareness, preventing and reducing the surgical backlog of fistula in the county.
-Story by Governor's Press Service
