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Primary Health Care Practice in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic

Joint Collaboration for Global Action Plan (GAP) Accelerators (1) WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF and WONCA

Introduction WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and United Nations partners, including the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) developed a guidance document for primary health care policymakers and providers on the role of Primary Health Care (PHC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO, WONCA and United Nations agencies, as part of the Regional workplan for implementation of the SDG-3 Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All, used the guidance to develop an online training course to help ensure that primary health care is fully integrated into every country’s response to COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. The training seeks to support primary health care personnel to maintain essential services and assist in controlling the pandemic as frontline health professionals, while ensuring their own protection through effective infection prevention and control mechanisms and maintaining the community’s trust in the health system. The course identifies four main functions of primary health care in relation to COVID-19: • maintaining essential health services; • preventing COVID-19 through supporting effective public health measures; • diagnosing COVID-19 cases and ensuring adequate referral; and • managing mild and moderate COVID-19 cases. Development partners strongly encourage primary care physicians, working in the public and private sectors in the Region, to undertake this training https://covid.emro.who.int Objectives of the training programme The programme has been designed to achieve the following objectives: • highlight the important role of PHC in maintaining the essential health services • inform PHC team with WHO most updated policies and guidelines related to COVID-19 • identify the role and responsibilities of PHC team in prevention and control of COVID-19 • present and discuss WHO health workforce infection control procedures recommended for COVID-19 prevention and control.

• گروه خبری : News & Events
• کد خبر : 66124

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