Projects and references

The Ministry of Health and the Environment of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is conducting a review of its health care facilities and of their location, and of health service needs throughout the islands, in order to determine the site and characteristics of a new hospital to be built in replacement of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. The overall objective of the project is to ensure a service coverage adapted to the needs identified. This study will support the development of specific functional criteria for the new hospital, particularly with respect to improvements to the national emergency medical services (EMS) system.

The RESHAOC was created to develop hospital cooperation among countries of West Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, with the overarching goal of ‘promoting communication and encouraging exchanges with a view to establishing a genuine technical and scientific partnership among the various hospital actors’. This network is supported by the French Development Agency (AFD).
The Fédération hospitalière de France is currently implementing the second phase of the project ‘Hospital Networks and Partners’, with the objective of (i) building partner hospitals’ capacities in terms of health care, management and practices; (ii) supporting the development of new hospital partnerships; and (iii) supporting the creation of North-South and South-South hospital networks and strengthening existing networks.
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the way in which the RESHAOC operates and the possibility of creating a new similar network for the Maghreb region.

This technical assistance programme is a specific support programme focusing on three components of Guinea's health system:
- Component 1 'Strengthening institutional support', whose activities will by implemented through programme estimates and particularly the central programme estimate;
- Component 2 'Institutional strengthening of the region of N’Zérékoré', whose activities will by implemented through a subsidy, programme estimates and work and supply contracts;
- Component 3: 'Strengthening of the essential generic medicine supply system', whose activities will be implemented through supply contracts.

The purpose of the Mother and Child Health Support Programme (PASMI) is to help improve mother and child health in Benin. More specifically, it involves:
- improving the quality of caesareans and neonatal resuscitation at hospitals accredited by the ANGC (National Agency for Free-of-Charge Caesareans);
- enhancing the affordability of emergency obstetric and neonatal care;
- strengthening the offer of and demand for family planning services;
- improving the integration of population issues into sector strategies.

This project involved a situation analysis of 608 health facilities of 25 health districts of Côte d’Ivoire: regional hospitals, general hospitals and urban and rural first-contact health facilities.
The study included 4 phases:
- Launch of the project;
- Evaluation of the health facilities (situation analysis);
- Architectural and technical studies (preliminary design/detailed design);
- Tender documents (provisional and final).
This study falls within the framework of achieving the objectives of the National Health Development Plan, and is one of the preconditions for the implementation of the performance-based financing strategy.

The project is for the construction of a regional hospital gathering all services scattered around the campus of the existing Shtip Clinical Hospital, and increasing its capacity and list of specialities. The new regional hospital will have a capacity of 245 beds, a total surface of almost 34 000 m², and will offer medical services to over 200,000 potential patients.

The objective of this assignment is to support the implementation of the new management strategy for the Mother Theresa University Hospital (QSUT) to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of the QSUT, and thus improve the utilisation efficiency and effectiveness of the different levels of the healthcare network as a continuum of services:
- Implementation of a continuous quality improvement system (CQIS) and support to revamp the referral system and restructure/reengineer the management process in both the administrative and clinical areas, to improve the results and quality of care of QSUT. This includes revamping the system to improve the efficiency of emergency referrals, and the clinical effectiveness of emergency services at QSUT;
- Design, development/adaptation and implementation of a new automated hospital management information system (HMIS).

Development of a detailed action plan for the decentralisation of radiotherapy and chemotherapy services within hospital health care:
(i) Detailed plans for the modernisation of hospital capacity
(ii) A comprehensive plan for staff training
(iii) Identification of opportunities for public-private partnership
(iv) Estimates of the costs for the infrastructure needed to modernise the hospitals in Balti and Cahul.