Senior Nursing students have successfully completed 6 days of IMCI training held in Eelo campus 4
Senior Nursing students have successfully completed 6 days of IMCI training held in Eelo campus 4. Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI ) is a WHO/UNICEF guidelines which offers simple and effective methods to prevent and manage the leading causes of serious illness and mortality in young children. The clinical guidelines promote evidence-based assessment and treatment, using a syndrome approach that supports the rational, effective and affordable use of drugs. The guidelines include methods for checking a child’s immunization and nutrition status; teaching parents how to give treatments at home; assessing a child’s feeding and counselling to solve feeding problems; and advising parents about when to return to a health facility. The approach is designed for use in outpatient clinical settings with limited diagnostic tools, limited medications and limited opportunities to practice complicated clinical procedures.
In our country IMCI clinical guidelines were adapted:
- To cover the most serious childhood illnesses typically seen at first-level health facilities,
- To make the guidelines consistent with national treatment guidelines and other policies, and
- To make the guidelines feasible to implement through the health system and by families caring for their children at home.