COVID-19 Response
Since the start of the pandemic, we have been working with several countries and healthcare organisations around the world, providing technical guidance, remote training support and PPE, particularly in low-resource settings.
Check-List Implementation in Moria Camp, Greece
“Even at the start of March [2020], we were yet to receive any guidance as to what to do with suspected patients, including the bigger NGOs, nobody had guidance available for us. We started to try and find the information ourselves from resources online, research anything! Just to find out what to do, how to do triage, what to wear. So when your resource [DWW Checklist 1- 4] came it came right on time. Even the name of the paper, the name of your work, was the ‘checklist’. So we were able to go through and see what we are able to do, what we may have already done wrong and how to correct it, and what we can add. It was our reference. We used your checklists to revalidate our triage system. I asked all the coordinators and medical actors that I shared your checklists with to really go through them as I felt the four checklists would enable them to become specialists in responding to COVID19”. - Doctor working in the Moria Camps (Greece).
Download the COVID-19 Preparedness checklists >COVID-19 Preparedness Checklists
Using 19 years of medical expertise and drawing on information and resources from around the world, four checklists were put together by Doctors Worldwide in March 2020 to provide a starting point for local health projects, NGOs and health facilities in low-resourced settings who are preparing for COVID-19.
- Checklist 1 – Prepare: Logistically
- Checklist 2 – Prepare: Medically
- Checklist 3 – Prepare: Infection Prevention, Control & PPE
- Checklist 4 – Prepare: Your Community
The checklists are designed for use by the entire team within a health facility or programme setting. This is to ensure a comprehensive understanding across all staff, whether clinical or management, of all the preparation steps as they respond to an outbreak. The four comprehensive checklists have been developed for local organisations, health projects, local community groups and health facilities that operate in low-resource and humanitarian settings. Access the checklists here. We also offer training and remote mentoring on the topics covered in the checklists. To find out more, get in touch
"I would recommend the Doctors Worldwide COVID-19 checklists, it is an essential guide on how to prepare for the situation where no one knows what to do when ‘it’ breaks in." - Checklist User
"I want to thank the Doctors Worldwide team for the checklists, they were very helpful and exactly what we really needed, exactly what we were looking for, especially in the very beginning of the pandemic when we were all asking each other about what to do" - Checklist User
"Thank you so much for your continuous effort and follow-ups for the effective teaching-learning process. And my sincere thanks to the presenters. The sessions are going well, and our team is trying to get the highest benefit from the training sessions." - A Participant
Pandemic Resilience Building
As part of our 2021 COVID-19 response activities, we focused on resilience building through training, telemedicine, peer support for healthcare workers, as well as small scale infrastructure support where needed. As the world continues to face its first pandemic in living memory, it is the most vulnerable communities with little or no access to healthcare who will face the greatest consequences and lives lost. Our urgent efforts to mobilise learning and resources to frontline health workers, as well as concentrated efforts on community awareness campaigns, provided a comprehensive first line of defence against COVID-19 and save lives.
We supported healthcare organisations and practitioners in low resource settings by delivering a series of COVID-19 webinars, participating in Telemedicine support, offering peer support through a dedicated WhatsApp group, and providing simple, easy to apply COVID-19 patient management flow charts designed for low resource settings. Given our regional ties, we supported our colleagues in are currently in conversation with partners in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, however our intention is to provide global support as we continue to engage with more healthcare workers. From June to October 2021, we sought doctors and nurses to help us support healthcare organisations and practitioners in low resource settings by delivering a series of COVID-19 webinars, participate in Telemedicine support, and support the content development of covid patient management flow charts. Overall, we:
- Contributed to online medical training and support to frontline healthcare workers in low resource settings.
- Taught on various medical topics related to COVID-19 clinical care and the contextual needs of the healthcare organisation and/or practitioners on the ground.
- Created case management flow charts and the application of medical protocols for healthcare workers managing COVID-19 patients.
- Through Zoom and/or Whatsapp groups, provided clinical and colleagueship support for healthcare professionals and organisations DWW collaborated with.
Webinar Educational themes consisted of:
- Clinical management of COVID-19
- Management on COVID-19 resurgence in low resource settings
- COVID-19 Vaccine Education, Uptake and Community Engagement
- COVID-19 and vulnerable groups
- Case Management Flow Charts, Care Pathways, and COVID-19 Protocols
- DWW COVID-19 checklists training
Support and mentorship consisted of:
- Supporting frontline workers in low-resource settings in Whatsapp groups (or other similar platform)
- Zoom conference calls for questions and advice in managing COVID-19 response
- One-to-one clinical mentorship via Zoom
Overall, our webinars resulted in:
- 11 countries represented by attendees with a focus on Nepal (Partner organisation)
- 16 health experts presenting with backgrounds in: public health, community engagement, primary care, emergency medicine, acute medicine, mental health, infectious disease, sexual and gender-based violence, paediatrics and neonatal care, and palliative care
- 17 health experts to assist with content development with backgrounds in: public health, community engagement, primary care, emergency medicine, acute medicine, mental health, infectious disease, sexual and gender-based violence, paediatrics and neonatal care, and palliative care
- 7 flow charts created
Privacy policy >Subscribe to our mailing list >© 2024 Doctors Worldwide Ltd. Charity Number: 1122671. Limited Company Number: 6389121
SAVE A LIFE.
CHANGE A LIFE.
No spam. Just projects updates and opportunities!