What SickKids brings to Ghana stays
Children and youth account for more than 40 per cent of Ghana’s population, yet very few health-care providers are sufficiently trained to address the specialized needs of children. Currently, more than 54,000 newborns and children under the age of five die each year in Ghana, many from preventable illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea. With a population of 27 million, there are about 10 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, meaning many children aren’t able to receive the health care they desperately need.
SickKids has a rich history of building health-care capacity around the world through successful international partnerships. Most recently, SickKids partnered with the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives to launch a one-year paediatric nursing education program with 177 students recruited from 114 unique health facilities across all 10 regions of Ghana.
Our vision is to educate 500 paediatric nurses from all 10 regions across Ghana by March 2020, ensuing more children have access to the care they need.
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Addressing gaps in care by building capacity in the next generation of health-care providers
The SickKids-Ghana Initiative is:
- Increasing the capacity of local health education institutions to scale up and sustain the delivery of paediatric nursing education
- Developing paediatric nurses who can translate knowledge and skills learned in the classroom into better health care for children
- Developing paediatric nurses who can apply principles of leadership, professionalism and gender sensitivity to their work
- Improving access to paediatric nurses for infants, children and teenagers across Ghana
- Contributing to a body of evidence for capacity building in paediatric nursing
SickKids: Global Child Health
For too many kids, preventable diseases will take their life before the age of five. SickKids is working to change that.
