TV1 report in English, duration: 2.5 minutes, about SolidarMed’s strategic planning meeting on December 8 in the Zambian capital Lusaka. Together with the Hilti Foundation, the LED has been supporting SolidarMed’s nursing project since 2015.
In the article, John Tierney, Country Director of SolidarMed, and Dr. George Sinyangwe, the Zambian Permanent Secretary of Health, point out the need to further improve the quality of medical training in Zambia and to increase the number of graduates in the Zambian health sector.
The challenges facing the Zambian healthcare sector, such as the lack of qualified nursing staff, were the focus of the SolidarMed strategy meeting. At the meeting, Zambian stakeholders from ministries and authorities discussed with experts from vocational training and the medical sector. They identified the priority needs in the areas of personnel, infrastructure and transport in order to make SolidarMed’s decentralized training model even more effective in the future. A total of ten SolidarMed Health Colleges are being promoted and strengthened with the support of the Hilti Foundation and the LED. This is done, for example, as part of the SUDEN project, which focuses on nursing and midwifery schools.
