Sudan: ICRC helps improve services of rehabilitation centres

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We are very pleased that employees of NAPO rehabilitation centres from all over Sudan participated in this course, commented Pascal Hundt, head of the ICRC delegation in Sudan. "Being able to use the new software will make the participants' work easier." The computerized management system makes it possible to follow up on patients more quickly and efficiently, not least because the data are centralized and better secured. If a patient interrupts his therapy or moves from one centre to another, treatment can easily be resumed. Another advantage of the software is that it can be adapted to the Arabic language. After Afghanistan, Myanmar and Cambodia, Sudan is the fourth country where the ICRC is introducing the new computerized patient management system. NAPO rehabilitation centres provide patients with prostheses, orthoses, walking aids and physiotherapy. The ICRC has been working with the centres since 1990. It currently supports seven NAPO centres, located in Damazin, Dongola, Gedaref, Kadugli, Kassala, Khartoum and Nyala, and a mobile clinic. Between January and September 2011, these centres treated over 2,500 patients. For further information, please contact: Julia Gebert, ICRC Khartoum, tel: +249 1 83 476 464 or +249 912 137 764