Making the most of International Partnership
05 October 2010
Presented by Dr W Chilengwe (Maj.)
Senior Medical Superintendent

• Referral National Psychiatric Hospital
• Built in 1962
• 210 Bed capacity with;
• Diagnostic Services
 Laboratory
 EEG
 Radiology
• Rehabilitative Services
 Occupational Therapy
 Physiotherapy

Chainama College Profile
• College started training in 1936
(Medical
Assistants now Clinical Officers)
• Ministry of Health Funded Institution
• Offers:
Pre - service and Post-basic training programs
Short in-service courses
• Has 650 students training annually

Chainama College Profile
Programs offered (Pre – Service)
• Clinical Officer General (COG)
• Clinical Officer Psychiatry
• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Environmental Health Technologist (EHT)
• Psychosocial Counsellors
• Optometry Technologist

• Ophthalmic Clinical Officer (OCO)
• Ophthalmic Nurses (ON)
• Medical Licentiate (ML)
• Anaesthetic Clinical Officer ( Move to CCHS 2011)
• MPH (With Leeds Met University)
• Short in service courses – Public Health,
Reproductive health, HIV/AIDS

Chainama Hills Hospital
Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust
 Link established about 7 years
 Benefits both College and hospital
 Supports the institution with critical materials and equipment for knowledge and skills update as well as technical expertise in the area of clinical psychiatry and mental health nursing

Chainama College
• Leeds Metropolitan University - facilitates the
MPH program with Chainama
• JPHIEGO – Supports curriculum development since 2005. COG, ML program
• Rehabilitated teaching clinic Theater 2010.
• Clinton Foundation – Educational Support to
COG training since 2009.
• Classroom construction 2010 to increase intake 100 to 140 per annum.

International Partnerships
• Solidarmed (Swiss NGO).
• Support ML program since 2009. Increase student intake from bi annual intake to annual intake,
• Provide teaching Aids and supplies
• Constructed two student hostels at practical sites – Kafue, Lstone
• Provide teaching staff – three specialists

International Partnerships
Swedish International Development Agency
• Provide Technical Advisor since 2007
• Provide Vehicle (s)
• Supported Regional conference on medical licentiates roles in the health sector in April
2010
• Capacity building of staff in teaching methods.

International Partnerships
AMDD - Columbia University(USA)
Supported Regional conference on development of Community of Practice for
Non Physician Clinicians in Africa July 2010.

International Partnerships
Sight Savers International
• Advocated MoH/College to start ophthalmic training programs: ophthalmic clinical officer, ophthalmic nurse and optometry.
• Support with training equipment, vehicle, books and infrastructure – hostel, optical centre
• Support faculty staff development (2 in india pursuing BSc optometry)

International Partnerships
University of Alabama (USA)
• support eGrainary library and staff development. New Campus plan
Cape Breton University (Canada)
• Support environmental research program and capacity building
Cordaid (Netherlands) – Support in-service hostel rehabilitation 2010 and business plan

International Partnerships
CIDRZ (USA)
• Supported Laboratory Rehabilitation.
• Supporting Teaching Clinic Rehabilitation
(2010 )
Leeds Met University/Manchester University
Support staff development – Masters, Phd
VVOB (Belgium NGO) – Supported the skills lab development for skills training (2004-7)

International Partnerships
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• Supported rehabilitation of the College medical laboratory
Partnerships in Medical Education (PRIME)
• Has been providing training to Lecturers in medical education and palliative care

• Technical assistance to occupational therapy department
• Conduct periodic developmental visits to support the education and training of staff, patient care support and applied research activities
• Supports development of curricula and evaluation of the impact of curricula on the quality of service delivered by trained staff.

• Donation of various medical books for students and staff
• Provision of Medical and Teaching Equipment and Supplies
• Infrastructure development/rehabilitation

• Exchange visits among the staff
• Student exposure through exchange visits
• Short refresher courses by visiting consultants
• Advocacy for college development
• Advocacy for human resources development
• Promote South – North link
• Exchange of Information and expertise

The links/partnership often do:
• Build the institutional profile and image
• Both partners benefit from information and expertise shared
• Facility to meet institutional objectives
• Promote further links

• Over ride the institutional objectives at times.
• Local institutions tend to adapt to partners priorities which may not so on the ground.
• Partners bring with them own reporting systems and are not willing to adapt to change.
• Some partners are inpatient with local systems. Hence do get frustrated.