Sudan

This analytical report is conducted to measure the gap between the available staffing resources of health services in greater Darfur and the identified minimum standards to be attained in disaster assistance. Key indicators of staffing levels (i.e. home visitors, doctors, health workers, ORT, etc) are used to measure these standards. Different levels of PHC system (i.e., community level, peripheral health facility, central health facility, and referral hospital level) are presented to show the coverage of the medical staffing resources per states on locality levels. [author’s description]

The document aims to analyse the health system in Sudan, to identify the new challenges brought about by the new context, and on this basis to present a post-conflict strategic framework for the health sector. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the health sector. Available data on infrastructures and human resources indicate wide inequality across states in resource availability. The findings of sub-sector reviews consistently point to the overall low technical and managerial capacity at local level, the lack of recurrent funds and the high attrition of health workers, due to low salaries and difficult working conditions. [from executive summary]

This version of Voices discusses the Capacity Project’s work with the Ministry of Health in Southern Sudan to strengthen its ability to plan for and manage the health workforce. [adapted from author]

In 2001 the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gezira (FMUG) introduced the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy into its medical curriculum. The emphasis was on pre-service training that addresses standard case management and the IMCI community component. This report presents the experience of FMUG in integrating such a training package into the medical curriculum. It explains the rationale for introducing the IMCI community component and the guiding principles for doing so. It describes the community-based courses into which the community component was integrated, the implementation and impact of the programme and the constraints faced.

This draft presents a concise situational analysis and the preliminary steps for creating a recovery strategy, including details of the health human resource situation and an outline of the interventions for building the health workforce.

The health workforce in Sudan operates under serious policy, financial, organizational, and managerial constraints, and as a result, productivity, morale, and effectiveness are sub-optimal. The effective performance of the human resources in health (HRH) is hampered by a series of structural bottlenecks and imbalances in the health system. This mapping outlines health worker profiles, health professional institutes, migration, and HR development in Sudan.

The 2005 peace treaty between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army created a window of opportunity for rebuilding the south’s severely damaged health sector. The effort is getting an important boost from a program to bring back 15 Sudanese-born doctors who are ready to help. [adapted from author]

This article profiles three leaders from Afghanistan, South Africa, and Southern Sudan who have made a significant difference in those countries’ HR situations. By taking a comprehensive approach and working in partnership with stakeholders, these leaders demonstrate that strengthening health workforce planning, management, and training can have a positive effect on the performance of the health sector. [from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses training Clinical Officers, a cadre of mid-level health professionals, as a method of filling the health worker gap in a post-conflict area.

This article describes the achievements of 11 Sudanese-Canadian physicians who completed medical training and returned to Southern Sudan to practice. Few internationally educated physicians are prepared to return to a homeland as challenging as Southern Sudan; this goes against the globally entrenched flow of physicians migrating from developing to developed countries. [from introduction]