Background/introduction
•The greatest challenge in addressing human health inAfrica relates to:
- Human resource capacity building
- Creating specific high quality infrastructure and services
•Manycountries reported that there is no adequate budgetdedicated.Additionallyit isalso reported that recruiting and retaining qualified staff; and acquiring,
maintaining and replacing equipment are recurrent problems in the majority ofthe countries.•Overall there is a generallack of adequate staffingat alllevels in medical imagingØThis has led to inadequate and sub-optimal delivery of evidence-basedhigh qualityand safe servicesto the patients .•Thereis agross shortage of equipment.ØMoreover,
where there...
Description of activity and work performed
Several chapter were launched:Kenyachapter(2015),Ugandachapter(2015),Africanfrenchspeakingcountrieschapter(2016,Algeria,
Benin,
Cameroun,
Cote d’Ivoire,Morocco,Maurit,ania,Senegal,Tunisia),Tanzaniachapter(2017),SouthAfricachapter(2018)Results:relatedcto the Bonn Call for ActionAction1(justification ,awarness):Applicationof the 3A,
especially "Awareness"Nationaland regional professional societies have promoted the prioritization of RPRP training sessionshave featured in regional and nationalmeetingsCIG implementation has begun by adopting and adapting other updatable evidence- based guidelines with the support of IAEA (TCregionalproject)oAction2(optimisation )Therehave been individual and institutional initiatives in establishing facility and nationalDRL’sin several countries:SouthAfrica,
Nigeria,
Kenya,
Uganda and Algeria.Thestudies inSouthAfrica and Nigeria aimed at establishing facility DRLs for computed tomography (CT) whereas the studies...
Conclusion and recommendations
How will Afrosafebe achieved?
With a logical framework approach as:Implementationof AFROSAFE actions will be carried outatanational and regional level record keepingAdherence of more championsGatheringofSpecificsofindividualapprochrelatedto mission,geographicrepresentation,
leadership,strategicplan,
business model,relationshiptohealthauthorities,
and communicationstrategies.The strategy will be implemented by:Changingthewayof theprofessionnalsoperateisvital tomeetcurrentsafetyhealthchallenges,consideringthatpeople,
andthereforehealthcareorganizations,
areinhe rentlyresistantto change.To dealwiththegrowingdemandfor thesafetypolicy,
radiation protectionmeasuresneedstobebetterintegratedwithotherhealthcareservices,helpingtoimproveorderingbehaviors,
managedemandon services andensuretheresultslead tobetterpatient care.Politicalwill,scalingupandempoweringhumanresource,professionalcollaborationsareessential.AFROSAFEis proposed to serve as a platform to foster Africa’s aspirations for quality and safety in the use of radiation in medicineThisstrategy for the implementation ofAfrosafeshould begradedfor Africaaspartofaneeds-basedimprovementprogramme.Itshould betailoredand selectedtosub- regions and countries based on the...
Personal/organisational information
African Society of Radiology (ASR)
Chairman :Pr Boudjema MANSOURI M.D
References
African Society of Radiology
