The Ministry of Health will soon create a
platform that will bring together researchers in order to seek solutions and
plug gaps in the health sector.
Dr Patrick Ndimubanzi, the State Minister in charge
of Public Health and Primary Health Care, said the ministry wanted to create a
platform for researchers with various backgrounds in the health sector in order
to put in place policies basing on factual findings.
He was speaking at a consultative meeting that
brought together professional researchers, academics and medical students, as
well as Government officials from the health sector, in Kigali yesterday.
“Even medical students’ thesis or inputs
by health service providers should be consulted to see how some of their
recommendations could be used to ameliorate health services,” he said.
He added that there were standards to base on when
someone carried out research depending on the size of sample use, and the scope
of area covered.
Jeannine Condo, the Director General of Rwanda
Biomedical Centre, said they were planning to link academics, students,
researchers and policy makers as a way of finding solutions to problems in the
health sectors.
For example, many research projects have been
conducted in the field of maternal and child health and some found that many
pregnant women start going to health centres for their first antenatal care
very late visit, mostly after the six month of their pregnancy, she said.
It means that women don’t finish all the four visits
recommended by the World Health Organization to ensure effective and adequate
follow up of both the pregnant woman and the fetus.
Research conducted by a certain Albert Ndagijimana
and his team from University of Rwanda, assessing why many pregnant women in
Kilinda District Hospital delay going for their first antenatal visit, found
that despite many initiatives to reverse the trend, there was little progress.
“Based on research findings, we are looking at how
we can use Community Health Workers to start as early as possible to follow up
on pregnant women, and they can even conduct pregnancy tests, by diagnosing
urine. After testing positive, community health workers should be the ones to
send the information to the health centres, and they should start antenatal
care services in the first term of pregnancy to limit risks on the health of
fetus and the mother,” she said.
The study recommends sensitisation on the importance
and benefits of tim
ely antenatal visits and more male involvement, especially
during the first trimester of the pregnancy, among others.
More than 40 researches from medical students,
professional researchers, academicians and health service providers have been
compiled in a book that will be based on to improve health services, officials
said.
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