The healthcare system faces big challenges to match the safety practice.
So the access to the international requirements and recommendations as outlined by the Bonn Call for Action helps both health professionals and policymakers make better-informed decisions about how to continue to improve and perform the system, to provide an efficient response to a good medical practice, ensuring that the benefits outweigh risks in all radiological medical procedures.
Across the world, a rallying appeal for health professionals to adhere to the principles of radiation protection and radiation safety has been launched.
This has led to the implementation of many successful awareness campaigns such as Image Gently or ImageWisely, Eurosafe , Canadasafe, Asiasafe, Japansafe, and Latinsafe .
Progress is well illustrated by several campaigns initiated in the continent as Afrosafe Rad on 2015 under the banner of the African Society of Radiology (ASR) and Arabsafe on 2017 under the banner of the Pan Arab Association of Radiology (PAARS).
Several announcements welcomes ARABSAFE to the growing global efforts and will work closely with the organization with content and activities related to informed medical radiation use (ISR,RSNA,ESR,ASR,SFR….. ).
Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe are campaigns made by radiation health workers with the mission to ensure that the benefits outweigh the risks for all medical radiation exposures ; the goal that all radiation-based procedures are appropriate, justified and optimized ; and the vision that all radiation-based medical procedures are beneficial.
Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe are involved in radiation protection with several aims as education about the benefit and risk of radiological procedures, radiation dose monitoring, recording and reporting of all diagnostic imaging procedures, promotion of the use of guidelines & appropriateness criteria for referrals, promotion regular professional development and training, public awareness on radiation safety and development of international relationships
By this way the topic of radiation protection is ongoing concerning the knowledge, the skills and also the chapter of culture related to the safe use of radiation.
But this, requires an identification of critical barriers for quality improvement and capacity expansion related to differences between the countries as the language, the culture or the means e.g the french and the English-speaking countries in Africa or the Arabic countries with the north of Africa and the middle east , but with a weighting of the data collected, and the basic indicators (resources at the local, national and regional scale as training and education..).
The actions and initiatives carried out to date have yielded palpable results concerning justification (action 1 of the Bonn Call for Action) , optimization (action 2 ), the training and education (action 4) and medical exposures (action 6) initiated by several active members as
Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa for the English-speaking african countries , and Senegal ,Cameroon ,Ivory Coast ,Benin Niger, Mali,Chad, for the French-speaking African countries, Algeria, Egypt Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia for North Africa, Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia for the middle east.
The language and the culture are strongly linked to the training and the education of the professionals and intervene in the main objective to update the situation on the actions undertaken in order to reinforce the capacity building of the campaign by identifying the challenges, opportunities, gaps and the steps to take as well as prospects.
This explain why the African Society of Radiology (ASR) and the Pan Arab Association of Radiology (PAARS) are the appropriate spaces to ensure such a task because involving all the scientific societies integrating all the professionals of health noted country in order to ensure a good dissemination with a balanced distribution of burdens between countries in the field of radiation protection taking in consideration the differencies .
The support of scientific societies at the national, regional levels has certainly been acquired, it must be strengthened and extended internationally.
The support of scientific societies at the national, regional levels has certainly been acquired, it must be strengthened and extended internationally.
The initiatives of Arabsafe join and merge with those of AfrosafeRad with regard to the countries of North Africa (part of African and Arabic countries) thus giving more values of commitments to all the actions undertaken.
It is important to root culture of mutual assistance and regional and international cooperation and to institute governance capable of ensuring the continuity of Arabsafe for the promotion of radiation protection by facilitating its access and integration into the health policies.
At the international level, Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe are actively involved as a member of the alliance created by the International Society of Radiology (ISRQSA) .
More countries must be included in the future by creating a strong bridge between the African countries and the Arabic countries with more proximity and communications , and also more collaboration in the field of human resources , well-illustrated by the countries from north Africa which are part of the African countries and the Arabic countries meaning part of Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe campaigns.
To strengthen the technical capabilities of the African and Arab countries in medical radiation protection International organizations (IAEA and WHO) should continue to play a supporting role with an identification of ways and means to strengthen the capacities of current actions particularly with regard to training.
Under the guise of scientific societies (national ,regional and international societies a) and relying on the facilitating role of international organizations, the contribution of Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe in the field of radiation protection must be consolidated and strengthened in order to initiate a validation and concretization process with the institutions and governmental authorities of each country.
It is important to root culture of mutual assistance at the regional and international cooperation to institute governance capable of ensuring the continuity of Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe for the promotion of radiation protection by ensuring its access and integration into the health policies.
Afrosafe Rad and Arabsafe will be achieved with a logical framework approach gathering of Specifics of individual approch related to mission, geographic representation, leadership,strategic plan, business model, relationship to health authorities, and communication strategies .
The greatest challenges in addressing human health in Africa and the Arabic countries relates to the Human resource capacity building and Creating specific high quality infrastructure and services .