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Purpose of the PUMUA Initiative
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Proprietary Limited in partnership with Ghana Health Service, Ghana Thoracic Society, and Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana is donating 300 Omron nebuliser machines to various healthcare institutions and the construction of nebulisation stations within Ghana (50 of which is been donated to Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana – PSGh). The initiative will also include healthcare worker and capacity-building support on the management of asthma
Collaborators/Partners
This initiative is in collaboration with the Teaching Hospitals, Ghana Health Service and Societies such as Ghana Thoracic Society, Paediatric Society of Ghana, Emergency Society of Ghana and Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to ensure asthma patients in Ghana have improved asthma care. It is our hope that together with our implementing partners, the Africa PUMUA Initiative will help to bridge the gaps in asthma care in Ghana.
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Overview
Course Description
This CPD training aims at adequately equipping pharmacists in the management of asthma. This capacity building program is part of the PUMUA Initiative by AstraZeneca.
The initiative, the Africa PUMUA Initiative, is AstraZeneca's innovative programme committed to redefining Asthma Care in Africa. PUMUA is a Swahili word meaning ‘breath’. The Initiative is intended to complement the government’s efforts in the management of Asthma, aligned to the Ministry’s National Policy for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Ghana.
Through partnerships with Governments, Healthcare Professionals and Societies, and AstraZeneca, the Africa PUMUA Initiative aims to improve paediatric and adult asthma management across public and private sectors with a focus on:
- Local health system strengthening - This involved provision of Nebulization Centres with diagnostics support like Spirometers and Peak flow meters in some selected Health facilities in Ghana.
- Health worker capacity building – Supporting the development guidelines/protocols, providing comprehensive asthma education for Healthcare Professionals (Doctors, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, Nurses) and generate data to support further management in Ghana. This shall be undertaken in partnership with Ghana Thoracic Society.
- Awareness and education – Both patients’ awareness and healthcare professionals’ educations
- Equitable access to AstraZeneca’s respiratory medicines
Building on a 50-year heritage in care and our portfolio of respiratory medication to treat asthma, the initiative forms part of AstraZeneca’s sustainability commitment to deliver improved accessibility, acceptability, affordability, and availability of quality care in Africa.
We look forward to providing you the details of the initiative and to discussing possible ways of collaborating with your esteemed office to the benefit of all Ghanaian’s living with Asthma.
What you will learn
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1. Manage chronic asthma better
2. Understand the challenges of SABA over-reliance and its implications for asthma patients
3. Effectively use the current management approaches for asthma and understand the need to reframe asthma care
4. Understand the benefit of Maintenance and Reliever Therapy for moderate to severe asthma
Course Content
Lecture Sessions
- SABA OVER RELIANCE 20 Minutes
- REFRAMING ASTHMA MANAGEMENT 37 Minutes
Downloadables
- Reframing Asthma Management
- SABA Over Reliance
About Facilitators
- 4 Courses on CES
Prof. Victor Wutor
B.Pharm, M.Sc, MBA, DrPH, Ph.D, FGCPharm
Visiting Professor of Biotechnology
Rhodes University, Microbial Molecular Biology at the University of Peshawar.
Certified Respiratory Educator.
Victor holds a PhD in Biotechnology, MBA (Entrepreneurial Management), MSc (Applied Microbiology) and B. Pharm (Hon). He is currently studying for a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree.
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- 4 Courses on CES
DCOP/Dr Ellen Sam
BPharm, MSc, PgDip, PharmD, FGCPharm
Chief Pharmacist - Ghana Police Hospital. Principal Clinical Pharmacist /Preceptor, Adjunct lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Police Hospital, KNUST
Dr Ellen Sam is a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), and the Chief Pharmacist of the Ghana Police Hospital. She is also in charge of all pharmaceutical-related issues of the Ghana Police Service. She is also the Principal Clinical Pharmacist at the Police Hospital.
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