Indian hospital trains Queens ICU staff
The Indian Wochkardt Hospitals last week trained 15 nurses from the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Qech) intensive care unit (ICU) in critical care for patients.
Wochkardt Hospitals critical care specialist Dr Ravimdra Zore said the training on Thursday and Friday covered some areas that are crucial in health care on acute kidney cases, septic shocks and electrocardiogram.
“These are patients with kidney, obstetric and heart patients who are at points of life and death. The training provided a basic tool to identify problems and manage the cases before they are given further referrals where needs arise,” said Zore.
The hospital’s international business manager Vinayak Padala said the training was crucial as they will build the capacity of Malawian medical staff, whom he termed as experienced and confident.
“We have been working with Malawian medical staff to build their capacity. This will build their confidence and now that we have been able to link up with them through WhatsApp calls and Google Meet with some critical cases, this cements our relationship with the health workers while updating them on recent trends in robotic surgeries, where machines help in accuracy levels in such cases,” he said.
Some critical cases in Malawi are referred to Indian hospitals like Wochkardt and, according to Padala, such online linkages foster fast and smooth assistance to minimise cases of excessive blood loss that may affect proficiency of medical care.
“For the past six years, we have been working with teams in Malawi on various issues like primary health care, knee and hip replacement with local doctors who have to make a decision to send cases to India,” he said.
Wezzie Mwafulirwa, matron of the ICU theatre at Queens, affirmed the importance of the training for the critical care nurses at one of Malawi’s referral hospitals.
“Our ICU caters for several departments in the hospital, including general surgery, cardiology and orthopaedics. The nurses have learned a lot in acute kidney management. There is a lot we have learned how to deal with obstetric cases that have infections,” she said.
