13 Mayl 2024, Sana’a, Yemen – For health systems around the world, especially those in low-income countries like Yemen, providing quality care to communities is a huge challenge. Key factors include health workforce shortages, difficulties for practitioners in keeping pace with the latest guidelines and best practices, lack of attention to health equity, and a lack of awareness of the drivers of patient safety.

Through the Emergency Human Capital Project (EHCP), funded by the World Bank and impelemented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and WHO are embarking on a joint initiative to tackle these factors. The quality-of-care training programme will strengthen the quality of services provided at primary care facilities in Yemen.

This training programme will bring together about 200 recently appointed general practitioners (GPs) at primary health care facilities, to provide them with clinical mentorship and hands-on, practical training in key practice areas..

Training programme areas include the fundamentals of quality of care; infection prevention and control; maternal health; newborn health; integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI); Essential Programme on Immunization (EPI); nutrition; noncommunicable diseases; and mental health and clinical mentorship.