Neonatal & Child Health
Neonatal & Child Health
Our Activities
- We provide continuous professional development for nurses, focusing on evidence-based care and competency in practical skills.
- We provide training in mentorship, leadership, ICT skills and the General Instructor Course to support nurses to share their skills with colleagues and students.
- We work with student nurses posted at ODCH to ensure that they receive practical experience in paediatric care.
- We are leading on refurbishing essential areas of the hospital.
- We are working with the teaching hospital complex to build specialty paediatric training so that Sierra Leone can one day train and qualify it’s own paediatricians.
Vital Progress
Neonatal & Child Health
Every contribution helps us deliver life-saving care to women and children in Sierra Leone.
- We have donated equipment to improve diagnostics, including X-ray, monitoring of vital signs, delivering oxygen, supporting breathing and enabling phototherapy.
- We set up and continue to deliver induction training to all new Doctors, nurses and students at the hospital, ensuring standards are maintained.
- We supported ODCH in instigating and delivering ETAT+ (Emergency Triage and Treatment) training, equipping staff to safely manage emergency cases.
- We supported the development of a Nursing Handbook for the induction of all nurses into ODCH. Welbodi continue to run mentoring and leadership with key staff.