CCCP: Enhancing Service Delivery in Clubfoot Treatment Clinics through Supervision
Children born with clubfoot deformity require specialized care to achieve full recovery, and the gold standard for treatment is the Ponseti Technique. The joy of witnessing a successful recovery from clubfoot often outweighs the significant time, energy, and resources invested by both medical staff and parents/guardians. To ensure effective treatment, clinics must meet specific criteria for providing quality care.
The Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program (CCCP), with over 22 clinics, is continuously implementing measures to enhance the quality of its services. In line with this goal, CCCP Coordinator, Mr. Tamon James, alongside Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Yingoh Haris, embarked on a 3-day supervision visit to the Program’s clinics in the Centre Region from September 17 to 20, 2024. They visited the PROMHANDICAM, Etoug-Ebe Baptist Hospital, and Ekoundoum Baptist Hospital clubfoot clinics. This visit followed similar ones to clinics in the Littoral, South West, and West Regions.
The primary aim of the visit was to present updated expectations for clubfoot management, provide orientation on data collection tools, and introduce quality indicators to ensure effective and efficient treatment. During the visit, Mr. Tamon James introduced the new program orientation to clinic staff, outlining the steps necessary to maintain high standards of service. He emphasized that the clinics’ responsibilities extend beyond treatment; they also include conducting awareness campaigns in district health facilities, training nurses and midwives on early detection and referral of clubfoot, and examining children’s feet during infant welfare clinics.
In addition, Mr. Tamon reviewed quality indicators such as the availability of trained personnel, adequate treatment equipment and supplies, awareness materials, and proper record-keeping procedures.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Yingoh Haris, used the opportunity to introduce the new electronic reporting system for clubfoot treatment and provided a hands-off orientation on data entry. Clinic staff were also trained on documenting and reporting different treatment levels to improve data accuracy and program monitoring.
The Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program, funded by Hope and Healing International and implemented by the CBC Health Services in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health, is dedicated to offering treatment to children born with clubfoot in certified clinics located across the Centre, Littoral, Adamawa, West, North West, and South West Regions of Cameroon.
Through ongoing supervision and the introduction of enhanced service standards, CCCP is ensuring that children with clubfoot receive the best possible care across its clinics.
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