Medical service providers get training on ICT

At least 72 Marie Stopes health workers from several centres across the country have received information and Communication Technology (ICT)training  to help them better adopt modern technological systems and methodologies.

 

Offered by the College of Business Education (CBE) the training is part of ongoing efforts to improve health services in the country explains the CBE Training Coordinator Ogakhan Nyamu, he also noted that the training will facilitate their access to health information across the world.

 

Speaking at the end of the ICT training over the weekend in Dar es Salaam, he said the training has enhanced the health workers’ capacity to manage global health challenges which need technological solutions.

 

“There are many challenges in the health sector, some of which can be solved using modern information and communication technologies,” said Nyamu, who was also an ICT lecturer at the CBE.

 

Another ICT lecturer from CBE, Godfrey Mwandosya, said the training was conducted to improve the provision of medical services through access to modern technology.

 

“The ICT training will speed up service provision and ease access to information,” he explained.

 

Commenting, the Marie Stopes Country Director, Ulla Muller, said the five-day training has increased workers’ confidence in the use of ICT and will have positive impacts on the health sector.

 

She urged the trainees to share the knowledge with other staff and seek further learning opportunities to better their performance capacity

Dr. Peter Mwampambe, also from Marie Stopes, said new knowledge is essential to improvement of health service delivery and reduction of mortality rate in the country. 

 

He said lack of ICT education is among the main challenges facing health workers, especially in Tanzania’s rural areas.

 

He said the training offered by CBE will help develop ICT skills for the effective handling of the health sector’s technical issues and pledged that CBE will continue to provide similar trainings to medical institutions across the country. 

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