Supervisors and Child Protection Officers trained to ensure Quality and Child Welfare in Clubfoot Treatment
Seven experienced Physiotherapists working with the Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program (CCCP), have been equipped to carryout supportive supervision of clubfoot clinics to ensure quality in the treatment of the condition. They were trained in a one-day workshop that took place on August 23, 2024 at Bafoussam Baptist Hospital.
The workshop to train 7 physiotherapists was preceded by one on August 22, 2024 at the same venue for 6 Child Protection Officers who have been designated as Focal P0ints. The Clubfoot Clinic Supervisors and Child Protection Officers were drawn from the 6 regions where clubfoot activities are implemented namely Adamawa, Centre, Littoral, Northwest, Southwest and West.
In this phase of the Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program, a lot of emphasis is laid on quality and the integration of clubfoot into health district activities. Thus, knowledge of the Clubfoot Supervisors was improved on principles of supportive supervision, providing training on early detection and referrals, quality indicators for clubfoot assessment, child safeguarding, use of clubfoot electronic reporting application among others.
After the training, the Clubfoot Clinic Supervisors shall provide onsite supportive supervision of clubfoot treatment activities in the different clinics in their respective regions to ensure effective treatment of clubfoot. They will also organize trainings on early detection and referral of clubfoot for midwives, nurses, doctors and traditional birth attendants in the health districts of their coverage areas.
Meanwhile, the training of child Protection Officers was aimed at orientating the Child Protection Focal Points on the clubfoot management protocol for them to be able to identify and manage cases of child abuse and neglect during the different stages of clubfoot treatment and improve quality of protection within the CCCP.
Opening the workshops, the CBC Supervisor of Projects, Prof. Tih Pius Muffih celebrated the partnership between the CBC health Services and Hope and Healing International, saying it is facilitating provision of services to children with disabilities and disabling conditions. He called on the participants to use knowledge from the trainings to provide their services diligently so as to ensure quality, which is the hallmark of the CBC Health Services.
The trainings were facilitated by the Coordinator of the Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program, Mr. Tamon James, the SEEPD Program Child Protection Officer, Mrs. Boyo Maurine, SEEPD Program Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Yingoh Haris and some Senior Physiotherapists.
It should be noted that clubfoot is treated within the context of the Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program using a non-surgical method known as the Ponseti method. The Cameroon Clubfoot Care Program is implemented by the CBC Health Services in collaboration with the Ministry of Health with funding from Hope and Healing International.
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