Mental Health Officer at World Health Organisation(WHO)

Mental Health Officer - (1803357)

Grade: NO-B

Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor

Contract duration: 3 Months

Job Posting: Jul 18, 2018, 1:11:37 PM

Closing Date: Aug 1, 2018, 10:59:00 PM

Primary Location: Nigeria-Maiduguri

Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria

Schedule: Full-time

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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

The Northeast of Nigeria is experiencing a humanitarian emergency affecting nearly 15 million people. It involves massive displacements of populations resulting in more than 2 million Internally Displaced People (IDPs). The IDPs live in densely populated clusters in camps or in host communities with poor sanitary conditions, and limited availability of food and basic services. It is estimated that nearly 4 million people are in need of health services. This humanitarian crisis with ongoing violence and displacement has impact on the health of the affected population including mental health. As a result of the disruption of the health delivery system and the relatively less emphasis given to mental health, there is a need to include mental health service as one of the essential health services.  

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Reporting to the Team Lead and under the overall guidance of the Incident Manager, the Mental Health Officer will be accountable for the effective day to day management of WHO mental health activities in line with the mhGAP approach, Sphere Project and Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) policies and strategies in the areas of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). The specific functions of the incumbent are:

• Facilitate training of PHC workers on MhGAP
• In collaboration with Borno state Neuro Psychiatry Hospital Organize and supervise mental outreach mental health services.
• Facilitate support to referral of patients to the state Neuropsychiatry hospital
• Provide timely analysed data on mental health services
• Support the assessment of mental health services in the state.
• Actively participate in the mental health related meetings
• Collaborate with partners on mental health through the mental health working group
• Perform other activities as required by the supervisor

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: University degree/qualification as a Psychiatry Nurse or Clinical Psychologist from a recognized university/institute.

Desirable: Masters degree in Public Health from an accredited/recognized institute.

Experience

Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in mental health in an international organization, NGO, government agencies or any other reputable organization

Desirable: Prior humanitarian working experience at field level with WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international non-governmental organization with expertise in mental health. 

Use of language skills

Essential: Excellent knowledge of English

Desirable: Working knowledge of ethnic languages would be an asset.

Skills

Specific skills required: 

• Good working of Microsoft Office
• Ability to work with large datasets.
• Good knowledge of online data collection applications, statistical analysis packages (Stata, SPSS, etc.).

2 Ebola patients attended church with 50 people before dying.

Two Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola patients who fled the hospital in the city of Mbandaka on Monday attended a prayer meeting with 50 people hours before they died, Jean-Clement Cabrol, an emergency medical coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), said on Thursday, 24th May 2018.

Health officials are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the deadly disease in the heavily populated port city in northwest Congo that is believed to have killed 22 people since April.

Two new deaths from Ebola and seven new confirmed cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

One of the deaths occurred in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, according to a daily bulletin.

A nurse also died in the village of Bikoro, where the outbreak was first detected, ministry spokeswoman Jessica Ilunga told Reuters.

Read also: Nurse Justina's Story From The Grave

The ministry said the seven new confirmed cases were registered in Bikoro.

Health officials administered an experimental vaccine on Monday to 33 medical workers and Mbandaka residents, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva.

The vaccine manufacturer Merck has provided WHO with 8,640 doses of the vaccine and an additional 8,000 doses are expected to be available in the coming days, WHO said.

Congo’s ninth outbreak of Ebola since 1976 is believed to have killed at least 28 people so far.

Officials are particularly concerned by its appearance in Mbandaka, a crowded trading hub on the Congo River with the road, water and air links to Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.

NAN reports that the WHO said it will need 26 million dollars for the Ebola Response in the DRC over the next three months.

WHO said it had also released two million dollars from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies, to scale up the Ebola response.

The Government of DRC, with the support of WHO partners, is preparing to vaccinate high-risk populations against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in affected health zones.

The organisation said health workers operating in affected areas were being vaccinated on Monday and community outreach had started to prepare for the ring vaccination.

More than 7,500 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine have been deployed to DRC to conduct vaccination in the northwestern Equator Province where 46 suspected, probable and confirmed Ebola cases and 26 deaths have been reported – as of Friday

Source: The Punch

Cholera outbreak kills 12 in Adamawa, Nigeria

A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people and may have infected at least 134 others in the northeast Nigerian state of Adamawa, a medical official said on Wednesday 23rd May 2018.

At least 134 others may be infected in the state of Adamawa where nurses are on strike and many have been displaced from war, making it difficult to deal with an outbreak of such magnitude.

Ezra Sakawa, medical director of the general hospital for Mubi, the town where the disease has struck said no fewer than 12 people have died from the disease and that there were many more cases. He also noted that there was little manpower to deal with the outbreak as nurses were on strike.

A senior official at the state health ministry Bwalki Dilli, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the ministry with the support of other partners like WHO had set up a 24-hour treatment centre at Mubi General Hospital.

He urged the public to be on alert and observe personal and environmental hygiene, adding that the state emergency operation centre had dedicated toll-free telephone lines for reports and enquires on health emergencies.

The outbreak comes days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its collaboration with the Nigerian government on precautionary measures at various seaports, land borders, airports and other entry points to prevent the Ebola virus from entering Nigeria. 


 Source: TRTWorld 

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Clinic Assistant At IRC

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to people affected by war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.



Position: Clinic Assistant

Locations: Maiduguri and Konduga, Borno

Reports to: Reproductive Health Midwife


Scope of Work
The RH clinic assistant is responsible for supporting RH midwives in direct patient care, registering new clients, assessing patients’ reproductive health state, determining what care they need etc.

Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the RH Clinic Assistant include but are not limited to the following:

• Assist RH midwives in direct reproductive health service provision
• Conduct initial consultations for patients attending the clinic according to IRC RH guidelines
• Assess signs and symptoms of illness, take vital signs and enter them in medical charts, develop a nursing diagnosis and triage patient to the appropriate provider
• Register new patients and provide STI and FP counselling
• Provide technical nursing support for RH services
• Ensure referral for all transfer patients are coordinated with necessary health care intervention and diagnoses
• Ensure all necessary information concerning the patients or activities in the clinic are reported to the supervisor in a timely manner
• Maintain the register for medical consultation, of all the present RH services
• Monitoring responsibilities
• Ensure all patient registers are properly filled on daily bases
• Ensure data tracking sheets a properly filled and reported to supervisors in a timely manner.

Other Duties:

• To perform any other responsibility as directed by supervisor.

Professional Standards:
All IRC staff are required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Gender requirement (if applicable): Female
• Qualified CHEW or Nurse with Nurse Diploma/Certificate
• At least 2 years of working experience in nursing care
• NGO experience preferred
• Experience in RH , BEmONC (EmONC), and working at community level
• Communication skills to educate and sensitise on sensitive RH topics
• Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, is flexible and able to handle pressure
• Good spoken and written English
• Computer literacy; Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Working Environment
The positions are located in Maiduguri and Konduga. The situation in northeast Nigeria continues to be volatile and the security phase is orange or red depending on location. This is a national position.

Benefits

• Competitive Monthly salary,
• 13th Month Salary Inclusive,
• Health Insurance Coverage for Family, Pension, Creche Facilities available for Women with babies under 24 Months.

Method of Application

Applicants should send their Cover Letters and CV’s to “The Senior Admin/HR Manager, IRC” via: IRCNigeria.Recruitment@rescue.org. 
The subject of the application should read “Clinic Assistant, Maiduguri” or “Clinic Assistant, Konduga”.
Or
Hand delivery applications should be sent to the IRC Maiduguri Field Office.

Note
Only shortlisted candidates will be communicated for Interview.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

NURSING APPLICATION FORMS ON SALE!

SALES OF NURSING APPLICATION FORMS!!! 

S.O.N. ST. GERARD'S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL KADUNA

Application forms for 2018 intake into 
School of Nursing St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital Kaduna 
for 

BASIC GENERAL NURSING TRAINING

 is on sale at the cost of  N 10,000 only.

Date: Begins Monday, 19th February, 2018

Time: 8:00am — 12:00noon each working day

Venue: St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital - Kaduna

          (ACCOUNT'S OFFICE)

Closing Date. 8th June, 2018

Exam. Date: 16th June, 2018

Venue of Exam.: School of Nursing, St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital, Kaduna

Time: 7:30 am prompt

Entry Qualification:

Five (5) Credits in the following subjects: English language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology in not more than two sittings in WAEC/NECO or combine.

NOTE ISSUES REGARDING FORMS AND SUBMISSION ERRORS E.T.C. SHOULD BE CLEARED LATEST 15TH JUNE, 2018.

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Why some HIV-positive people develop AIDS quicker than others is now clearer!

HIV/AIDS researchers have never understood why people infected with HIV developed AIDS at different times‚ but now they suspect that it all has to do with their genes.

A study by South African and US researchers has shed new light on how specific genes in people can lead to the faster progression of AIDS-related illnesses in people living with HIV who are not on treatment.

The study‚ published in the prestigious journal Science‚ was led by South African scientists who‚ together with an international research team‚ discovered that a specific-type human leucocyte antigen (HLA) gene helps infected cells to evade the body’s first line of defence.

The study‚ which polled 9‚763 people living with HIV in SA and the US‚ showed that individuals with the specific HLA type progress from asymptomatic HIV infection to becoming ill with AIDS faster.

The viral load in these individuals was higher and their CD4 immune cells were destroyed more rapidly‚ before they started antiretroviral treatment.

Acclaimed HIV/AIDS expert Prof Salim Abdool Karim said they had known for a long time that if 10 people became infected with HIV‚ each of them would develop AIDS at different times‚ but they never knew the reason.

Now it is understood that this is due to our genes and one specific type of gene expression called the human leucocyte‚ Karim said.

"That’s so important because it tells us for the first time why some people get AIDS and why others don’t get AIDS for a long time."

Karim said the study’s findings highlighted the importance of regular HIV testing‚ "so that people with HIV can get to know their status and start antiretroviral treatment early‚ well before they become ill with AIDS."

He said the finding had now opened the door to look at whether a new drug being developed for cancer would be able to slow down the development of AIDS.

The research team included scientists from the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp)‚ the Centre for the AIDS Programme Research in SA (Caprisa) and the Human Pathogenesis Programme (HPP) based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and researchers from the US National Institutes of Health and the Ragon Institute.

"I was pleasantly surprised by the findings as I expected the opposite results since the HLA genes were thought to protect against viruses‚" said Dr Veron Ramsuran‚ co-leader of the study who is a scientist at Krisp and Caprisa.

Dr Vivek Naranbhai‚ a South African doctor and scientist currently at Harvard University and who is affiliated to Oxford University‚ Caprisa and the Ragon Institute, said this was the largest genetic study on HIV thus far.

"Moreover‚ these findings are exciting because drugs to target the HLA interaction with immune cells are being developed for cancer but may be repurposed for HIV treatment and cure strategies."

Dr Mary Carrington‚ director of the Basic Science Programme at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research of the National Institute of Health‚ said: "Our results show that expression levels of these genes contribute to the overall effect of HLA variation on HIV control through the innate‚ as well as the adaptive immune response. Now we must carefully consider how to use this information for the benefit of patients with HIV."


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