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COVID-19 Response

Working to adapt training materials and implement remote training with WHO SEARO

The IMAI Alliance has worked with WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO) as part of its COVID-19 response to adapt the training materials and WHO IMAI District Clinician Manual and to provide remote trainings to general clinicians (non-ICU) and national facilitators in Myanmar, Timor Leste, and Cox’s Bazaar (Bangladesh) as well as additional clinical webinars, and development and implementation of the SEARO IMAI oxygen supply/ecosystem survey. A SEARO-IMAI Alliance intercountry training for national trainers from 6 countries is ongoing. 

The key tools available for clinical and infection prevention and control (IPC) training during the COVID-19 pandemic are the: Quick Check algorithm wallchart and training manual (COVID-19 screening, triage by severity, assessment, and emergency treatments); Management of the severely ill patient with severe respiratory distress and septic shock; and Clinician’s role in disease surveillance and response (which covers recognizing and reporting priority diseases with epidemic potential, differential diagnosis, standard case definitions, and IPC for the clinician). These WHO SEARO-adapted tools are consistent throughout with WHO evidence-based guidelines and are regularly updated to keep abreast with changing COVID-19 recommendations.  

Emergency Relief Effort - Guidance for Makeshift Hospitals in India and Nepal

This poster highlights key interventions for the management of patients with COVID-19 with low oxygen saturation that can be done at a makeshift hospital.