Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2020
Keywords:
Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, Management, Professional issues, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, PACS, RIS, Teleradiology, Radiation safety, Safety, Socio-economic issues, Economics, Education and training, Quality assurance, Not applicable
DOI:
10.26044/esi2020/ESI-05713
Conclusion and recommendations
A strategy for the implementation of Afrosafe Rad should be graded for Africa as part of a needs-based improvement program. It should be tailored and selected to sub- regions and countries based on the resources and needs but also the culture and the languages; changing the way of the professionals operate is vital to meet current safety health challenges, considering that people, and therefore healthcare organizations, are inherently resistant to change.
To deal with the growing demand for the safety policy, radiation protection measures needs to be better integrated with other healthcare services, helping to improve ordering behaviours, manage demand on services and ensure the results lead to better patient care.
Political will, scaling up and empowering human resource ,professional collaborations are essential. The success depends on taking into consideration the peculiarities and specificities of each country as the culture and the language in order to ensure a good dissemination with a balanced distribution of burdens between countries at the regional and sub-regional levels. Thus Afrosafe Rad campaign is an opportunity of promotional continuity of the radiation protection in the global approach and the African Society of Radiology (ASR) remains the appropriate space to ensure such a load because implying all the scientific societies taking care to integrate all the health professionals .
Afrosafe Rad has to be strengthened and enforced by realistic and practical perspectives.