Experiences from Cyclone Anna and Cyclone Dumako: A short report
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Experiences from Cyclone Anna and Cyclone Dumako: A short report | |
| Creator | Mailosi, Amos Mwalwanda, Stanley Hassan, Charles Zinkanda, Stalin Matanje, Beatrice Munyaneza, Fabien Aron, Moses B. Dally, Emily Mulwafu, Manuel Kachimanga, Chiyembekezo | |
| Description | In the third week of January 2022, the southern districts of Malawi were hit by Cyclone Ana. The worst affected areas were Chikwawa and Nsanje. Four weeks following Cyclone Ana, a rather smaller cyclone, Dumako, hit the same areas, causing more damage. The Partners in Health or Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, an international humanitarian nongovernmental organisation that provides primary health care (PHC), organised teams to join Chikwawa District Council – Health, providing PHC assistance in the most affected district (Chikwawa); these teams were joined by three senior residents in family medicine from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences.Contribution: From the experiences of the interventions reported here, it was learnt that a multidisciplinary team of PHC providers is the key to the success of the emergency PHC programmes in times of natural disasters. While immediate PHC may be important at the actual time of disaster, it was learnt that PHC is also very important for continuation of care for chronic conditions, antenatal clinics and other clinics that are interrupted by the disaster. The experiences emphasised the importance of involving the PHC physicians and other PHC cadres in planning PHC programmes in natural disaster–prone areas. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2022-12-14 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/phcfm.v14i1.3761 | |
| Source | African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 14, No 1 (2022); 4 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928 | |
| Language | eng | |
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