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6 Case Study

Capacity Building Project for
the Prevention and Control of
Chronic Renal Failure in Belize

Consultants from Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, a partner of this project, at Belize
providing professional and technical training.

The 2009 Pan American Health public health capacity through standards of dialysis nurses in Belize.
Organization survey shows that education, enhancing renal disease For training of public health promoters,
Belize, our diplomatic ally in Central care through building professional the TaiwanICDF integrated the health
America, has a very high number of competence, implementing effective education methods of the Belize
chronic disease cases as a result of management of chronic disease Kidney Association to enable them to
the prevalence of hypertension and cases through improving the health educate local citizens on the concept
diabetes. There is a general shortage information system, and facilitating of renal disease prevention in simpler
of technology and human resources analysis and policy recommendation local language.
for renal disease care, cost of dialysis through community screening and By the end of this project, the
is very high and only a limited number establishment of a database. project team expects to complete
of citizens are receiving government In 2016, the first year of the project, professional training for at least
subsidies for treatment. the TaiwanICDF dispatched a public 62 Belize health professionals and
In view of this, the TaiwanICDF health project manager to work with health education for at least 200
implemented the Capacity Building the Belize Ministry of Health and local public health promoters. In the
Project for the Prevention and Control selected a total of four local physicians future, we believe that, with Taiwan’s
of Chronic Renal Failure in Belize and dialysis nurses to receive training ample experience in chronic disease
in collaboration with Far Eastern on renal disease prevention and prevention, Belize will gradually
Memorial Hospital (FEMH). The dialysis treatment at FEMH. These establish its own CRF prevention
purpose of the project is to introduce four healthcare professionals became system and the concept and
Taiwan’s experience and know-how seed teachers after they returned technology of renal disease prevention
in renal disease prevention into Belize to Belize and conducted training for will gradually become part of Belize’s
and assist the nation to establish local physicians, dialysis nurses and health care system. The overall system
a basic system for prevention and public health promoters in the central development is expected to effectively
control of chronic renal failure (CRF), and southern regions of the country. reduce the burden on Belize’s public
thereby reducing the country’s FEMH also dispatched nephrologists health system caused by chronic
economic burden due to chronic to Belize to help the local physicians diseases.
diseases. develop competence in renal disease
prevention and case tracking and
Emphasizing prevention and management in coordination with the
control from four dimensions training courses organized by the seed
Focusing on the importance of teachers. 62
prevention and disease control, For training of dialysis nurses,
this project expects to reduce the TaiwanICDF planned courses in
the number of CRF patients and collaboration with the Belize Nurses Number of personnel
patients entering the stage of dialysis and Midwives Council according to who completed
through four strategies. These their requirements to re-train and certify professional chronic
disease training
strategies include strengthening the dialysis nurses currently in practice,
chronic disease prevention and aiming to raise the professional

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