Training
Ear and hearing healthcare training
WizEar provides specialized training in ear and hearing healthcare to healthcare workers, community health workers, and teachers. The trainings focus on early detection, referral, diagnosis, and basic treatment of ear and hearing issues. Trainees, including healthcare staff from Central, Provincial, and District Hospitals nationwide, as well as teachers from various provinces, are instructed by ENT Specialists and Audiologists.
The comprehensive training program includes didactic lectures, hands-on practical sessions, and opportunities for trainees to participate in joint consultations with specialists. WizEar further supports trainees through ongoing supervision and mentorship with follow-up visits to hospitals.
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.
Specialised training
Public Health Planning for Hearing impairment (PHPHI) Training Workshop
- Harare
PHPHI Training
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
Infrastructure Development
Wizear also participates in Infrastructural Development. Wizear has built a state of the art double suite Paediatric ENT theatre at Sally Mugabe Children’s Hospital in Harare . The theatre provided the opportunity to perform ENT surgeries to children therefore improving health outcomes . In addition , the theater also provides the platform for training of ENT surgical techniques to ENT specialists students. Further, Wizear has built a One-Stop Ear and Hearing Center in Harare which operates as the main referral center for all tertiary audiology services for all patients who have been identified in the capacitated provinces . The Centre also includes a training facility where trainings are conducted .
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