ARISTIDE MENSAH HEALTH CENTER
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The Aristide Mensah Health Center in Yeumbeul is a non-profit private facility dedicated to serving the community.
The Aristide MENSAH Integrated Center for Community Health and Development (CISCOM-DEV) is an initiative of the Institute for Training and Research in Urology and Family Health (IFRU-SF). IFRU-SF obtained authorization from the Ministry of Health and Social Action (MSAS) to open a community health center in the COMICO IV city of Yeumbeul. The Center began its activities on March 15, 2017. The Center is active in community health, which is an approach to solving health problems based on community engagement.
It integrates preventive, promotional, curative and rehabilitative health services intended for communities and delivered by the communities themselves under the supervision of public health personnel.
It aims to extend health services to the geographical and social periphery of the country, structures and strengthens local health governance and the partnership between communities and health structures.
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ARISTIDE MENSAH HEALTH CENTER
It aims to:
– improve reproductive health in the broad sense by integrating care for the man and the woman-child couple;
– to make quality care accessible at a sustainable cost;
– and to reduce the hospital referral rate as well as the duration of hospitalization through the development of ambulatory care
This model of grouping at the community level will allow a pooling of resources with a view to rational use of means of diagnosis, treatment, training and research. This initiative is fully in line with the objectives of the National Strategic Community Health Plan and Universal Medical Coverage by promoting geographic and financial accessibility.
STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES
A modern and functional infrastructure welcomes the Center in the heart of the Dakar suburbs. In order to ensure better care for patients and significantly reduce their time spent at the Center, a reception and orientation system has been set up to guide consultants. Satisfaction surveys among Patients and/or accompanying persons are regularly organized to collect their assessments of the services provided. A system for reminding and canceling appointments has also been established.
The Center has embarked on the path to dematerialization by implementing a financial information system. Medical information is not left out either. A dedicated cell makes it possible to collect and process the various statistical data generated by the activity; which constitute a powerful tool to aid decision-making. These same statistics are reported to the Yeumbeul Health District.
WORKING FOR THE COLLECTIVE INTEREST
IFRU-SF is committed to a public service mission by contributing alongside public authorities to meeting the health needs of the community in certain areas. The Aristide Mensah Health Center constitutes the first milestone in a large network of Integrated Community Health and Development Centers (CISCOM-DEV) which aims to be national. The lessons learned with the establishment of this first Center will make it possible to consolidate this concept of private health service of collective interest in order to scale it up.
