One of many well being centres visited by the imPACT Evaluation staff was the Donka hospital in Conakry, Guinea. (Picture: M. Nobile/IAEA)
“Most cancers management is a precedence for the WHO Nation Workplace in Guinea and, so as to guarantee a complete method, we’ll combine the suggestions put ahead by the imPACT Evaluation specialists into the biennial Plan of actions 2024-2025,” acknowledged Jean Marie Kipela, WHO Nation Consultant.
On the finish of the mission, specialists from the imPACT Evaluation staff introduced their key suggestions to the Ministry of Well being. The findings stem from an preliminary interval of knowledge gathering and evaluation, corroborated by the exchanges and visits that happened over the course of the weeklong mission. The suggestions included the necessity to combine cervical most cancers screening into the important well being care bundle on provide to public sufferers; reinforcing diagnostic companies by equipping regional hospitals with mammographs and CT scanners; growing teleradiology (a expertise which permits radiological affected person photographs to be shared between docs primarily based in several hospitals); and establishing an built-in centre for most cancers analysis, therapy and analysis.
Following the imPACT Evaluation, a three-day workshop was organized by the Ministry of Well being, with WHO help, to draft a Nationwide Most cancers Management Plan (NCCP). This plan will information all future nationwide efforts by way of most cancers prevention, administration and monitoring within the nation, aiming to cut back the challenges confronted by sufferers in accessing most cancers care and enhance coordination between authorities establishments, the non-public sector and civil society organizations. It additionally seeks to re-establish and formalize the most cancers registration system that was created in 1992, so as to allow the Ministry of Well being to trace the influence of most cancers management efforts and spending on charges of most cancers incidence.
