Infrastructure development
Dedicated ENT Paediatric Theatre at Sally Mugabe Children’s Hospital
WizEar Trust with support from Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI) is running a project known as Prevention of Childhood Hearing Impairment through strengthening ENT Services in Zimbabwe (P4014). It is through this project that is running from 2019 to 2023 that resulted in the birth of a state of the art Sally Mugabe Paediatric ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) theatre. The old theatre was overwhelmed as various surgeries took place giving a few slots to ENT clients. This resulted in a very long waiting list of children to receive ENT surgical support. The completion of the Sally Mugabe Paediatric Theatre in 2022. The theatre now offers ENT minor and major services to children at Sally Mugabe Hospital. The Paediatric theatre now ensures that set surgery targets are met and guarantee early life quality for the operated children.
Ear Camps
Promoting Ear & Hearing Health through Ear Clinic
WizEar activities are hinged on four pillars which offer a holistic intervention approach to ear and hearing health care in Zimbabwe. This is achieved through close coordination with Ministry of Health and Child Care to facilitate sustainability of the interventions. One of the four pillars is service provision, and this is done through holding ear clinics and out reaches around Zimbabwe as well as provision of service to individuals, groups, or organisations. Ear camps are the backbone of Wizear implementation strategy to reach the marginalised members of the community who bear the burden of discrimination and isolation in the mainstream economy due to poor ear and hearing health. Ear clinics provides a platform for early detection of ear infections and encouraging appropriate treatment to guard against hearing loss. WizEar has managed to conduct 30 ear Camps in various places in Zimbabwe reaching a total of 5876 individuals with ear and hearing health problems. Ear camps provides an ideal platform for supporting parents, guardians and caregivers on issues related to ear and hearing health including defining the referral system in Ministry of Health and Care as well as other ear and health service providers.
What we aim to achieve with ear camps
The objective of ear clinics is to meet the general public and share ear and hearing health issues through client screening, audiological assessment, fitting of hearing aids and promotion of referral systems for ear treatment and management to promote ear and hearing health.
WizEar has conducted ear camps at Bindura Provincial Hospital, St Pauls Musami in Murewa, St Lukes in Lupane, Chitungwiza Central Hospital, Mpilo Central Hospital to mention but a few.
Ear camps provides a platform for refresher of ENT staff (doctors, nurses, Rehabilitation Technicians and Village Health Workers.) WizEar creates this platform to get feedback on prevailing ENT services and plan accordingly. Patients requiring surgery are identified at ear camps and referred to appropriate levels where they can get services in audiology and speech therapy.
In Conclusion ear camps provides ENT services that promotes prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of hearing impairment in Zimbabwe.
Our teams in action
St Pauls Musami - July 2023 Earcamp
Chitungwiza Central Hospital - July 2023 Earcamp
Bindura Provincial Hospital - July 2023 Earcamp
Specialised training
Public Health Planning for Hearing impairment (PHPHI) Training Workshop
WizEar in partnership with University of Zimbabwe, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been coordinating annual PHPHI Training Workshops for the past 6 years with financial support from Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI). In total 231 health workers have been trained. The Training Workshop enables interactions of global and local experts on ear and hearing health. This facilitated a platform to learn and share lessons across the globe on developments on ear and hearing health and their relevance for Zimbabwe. WizEar proposes the inclusion of PHPHI Training Workshop in the Integrated Eye and Ear Project in Zimbabwe proposal. This would involve inclusion of local eye health expects so that participants to the Training Workshop may learn lessons for hearing health from eye health programmes in Zimbabwe.
PHPHI in Zimbabwe has facilitated the interaction of nurses, doctors, government stakeholders, people living with disability (the deaf, the blind,) to develop appropriate measures to address issues around disability particularly those with hearing loss. The global technological changes require an ideal platform to exchange ideas and make informed decisions and PHPHI provide that ideal platform for Zimbabwe to compare the local opportunities on eye and ear care
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PHPHI Training
World Course on Hearing Health - 2022
Wizear, through support from the International Federation of Otolaryngologist Societies (IFOS) in collaboration with Christian Blind Mission, hosted the World Course on Hearing Health in 2022 and 2023. The course brings together ENT specialists globally to exchange insights and research findings in the field of ear and hearing health. The event welcomed participants from the region and internationally who represented diverse healthcare sectors and other interested individuals.
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