Bugosera Sulaiman Wasukira

Achievements:

Pre-Hospital Emergency Care:

• Coordinated referral (intraregional and interregional) of patients in nine (9) ambulances supported under the national ambulance services scheme.
• Supervised staff (drivers and ambulance assistants) on the nine (9) ambulances in the region that are supported under the national ambulance services scheme.
• Held training for the ambulance assistants on basic emergency care principles and offered monthly continuing education sessions to ambulance assistants.
• Coordinated patient transfer schedules, ensuring prioritization according to triage codes.
• Ensured that ambulance usage guidelines are followed including proper documentation of care of patients, safety for ambulance teams and accountability for fuel.
• Managed logistical issues arising with ambulances including scheduling for service and maintenance of ambulances.

Facility-based Emergency Care:

• Supported the training of 29 healthcare workers from 12 health facilities in the Lango region and 21 healthcare workers from the Acholi region in a training of trainers.
• Supported the distribution of job aides and HMIS tools to all facilities trained in the Lango and Acholi regions including triage kits distributed to 15 facilities in both regions.
• Supported the cascade of the training of trainers to other healthcare workers in 10/12 health facilities in the Lango region.
• Ensured continued supply of HMIS tools to facilities that requested more HMIS tools.
• Headed the organization of Continuous Medical Education sessions within the EMS department in liaison with other partners and later supported the implementation of the EMS ECHO program.

Administrative:

• Attended monthly regional COVID-19 task force meetings and interacted with various stakeholders in the COVID-19 response about the EMS regionalization agenda.
• Held one-on-one meetings with DHOs from all districts in the region to discuss the operations of EMS within the districts.
• Attended EMS weekly meetings to discuss the functioning of EMS in the various regions; achievements, challenges and solutions.
• Conducted an assessment of Emergency Units at four (4) General hospitals in the Lango region and six (6) general hospitals in the Acholi region.
• Conducted an EMS support supervision activity of 8 health facilities within the Lango region.
• Regularly reported EMS data from the Lango region through weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Offered guidance to District Health Officers on the EMS processes and liaised with them for coordination of EMS in the region.
• Completed a value for money audit for EMS within the region with officers from the Office of the Auditor-General.
• Attended the regional health sector performance review meeting and presented the EMS regional agenda.

Responsibilities/ Duties:

• Participated in the implementation of the NIFTY and YEFE Studies, following the existing protocols, SOPs and the ICH-GCP guidelines.
• Participated in the recruitment, clinical assessment and inclusion of 240 participants into the NIFTY study.
• Together with other clinic team members participated in the collection of samples from;

The NIFTY study participants at inclusion, viraemia, day 10 and day 28 and day 365 visits. These included blood samples for serum, PBMCs, HIV RCT, CD4+ cell counts and any other tests deemed important.

The YEFE children’s study participants attended their one-year follow-up and unscheduled clinic visits. These include blood samples for serum and other investigations as required.

• Completed case report forms according to the available guidelines, ICH-GCP and SOPs, including resolution of queries arising from data monitoring and entry processes for both the YEFE and NIFTY studies.
• Participated in the clinical assessment of participants both in the NIFTY and in YEFE studies during the scheduled and unscheduled visits.
• Participated in the referral process of participants who needed further care to institutions collaborating with the study clinic and did follow up on the participants to find out the health outcomes after receiving care at the referral points.
• Made phone-call follow-ups to participants about various issues including progression of symptoms of Adverse Events reported during clinic visits, adherence to medications prescribed at the clinic, and reassurance about any other health issues arising.
• Participated in various study-related (NIFTY and YEFE) SOP training, plus review and updating of existing SOPs.
• Together with the clinic team, carried out a successful dissemination exercise for the results of the adult sub-study of the YEFE study.
• Together with the community social workers and the site investigator developed communication and community engagement strategies, and correspondences to stakeholders and sponsors.

Responsibilities/ Duties:

• Completed rotations in four disciplines of Pediatrics and Child Health, Internal Medicine, Surgery plus Obstetrics and Gynecology.
• Attended/ conducted daily ward rounds on admitted patients throughout all four disciplines of my internship.
• Attended to patients in the Out-Patient Department during all disciplines of rotation including special clinics like ART/ TB clinic, Hypertension/ Diabetes clinic, Sickle Cell clinic, Antenatal and Postnatal clinics plus the Pediatrics clinic.
• Managed patients in the Emergency/ Casualty department and performed emergency medical and surgical procedures on patients in the Casualty department.
• Participated in the organization and presentation/ discussion of various topics during Continuous Medical Education sessions.
• Carried out elective and emergency surgical procedures in the main theatre with observance of the theatre protocols.
• Ensured adequate follow-up of all patients managed with both medical and surgical conditions.

Responsibilities/ Duties:

• Did double data entry of post-survey assessment for all participants.
• Reviewed data files of all participants to assess errors.
• Participated in fixing any errors identified.
• Participated in compiling the final data set of the study.