PATIENT IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Obstetric fistula screenings.
Learn more about the Patient Identification Challenge and why identifying individuals in need of medical treatment and finding ways to make that treatment accessible reduces poverty.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative aims to identify and to help treat obstetric fistula patients from remote areas of South Sudan.
In Western Equatoria State of South Sudan, the majority of women deliver at home without a skilled birth attendant and when complications arise, as they do in approximately 30% of all births, there is no one available to treat the woman, leading to disabling injuries like fistula. The project will use women peer educators, community health workers and traditional healers to increase community awareness about the issue, with a concomitant increase in the number of patients identified and be referred to the nearby hospitals to receive the required treatment for obstetric fistula. The project will cover transportation costs for fistula patients to get treatment and will further establish fistula survivors’ solidarity groups for awareness raising and ongoing identification of other patients.
Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative was started December 2021 by Fidele Tuyishimire and Pio William Jey Mayot. Fidele serves as the Director of the initiative while Pio William serves as its Partnership Officer.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Identify and help treating 150 fistula patients
Empower 60 community health workers and 40 traditional healers to assist in identifying and help treating fistula patients
Conduct 40 community awareness campaigns on obstetric fistula
FOUNDING TEAM
Fidele Tuyishimire- Director
Pio William Jey Mayot - Partnership Officer