Some work had already been carried out by the World Health Organization to help reorganise rehabilitation in the post-Soviet era. But the first task for Sidy Dieye, head of programmes and development, and his team was to get buy-in from the local health professionals and change their understanding of contemporary physiotherapy.
A três mentores de projeto são Ann Nicholson, membro da americano Fisioterapia Associação, Nihad Almasri, membro da Jordaniano Fisioterapia Sociedade, e Heather Dawson, membro da australiano Fisioterapia Associação.
Já havia um in place, and about a third of its content was mandatory, but the team worked to develop the remaining curriculum. With the support of the limited team on the ground – the entire physiotherapy workforce consists of one physiotherapist and four rehabilitation assistants who had trained in India – the World Physiotherapy team has been supporting them in bringing the course up to date. It has also advised on the current understanding of what physiotherapy is and can do.
Esta equipe no país está apoiando aqueles que atualmente estão passando por treinamento e está começando a introduzir abordagens mais inovadoras.
“Isso ajuda os outros a avaliar o que precisa ser feito”, diz Sidy. “No nível educacional, as pessoas estão começando a entender isso. E o corpo docente do instituto de treinamento, todos os médicos entendem agora que precisam mudar ”.
Heather is positive about progress. “The teachers at the Republican Medical College and the service providers now understand what physiotherapy is in the World Physiotherapy sense – and that it is a separate profession. A physiotherapist is not a specialised nurse or a specialised doctor.
“There is a commitment on the part of the teachers to change, to introduce an entry-level and to overcome the myriad of challenges. This determination is underpinned by the commitment from the government of Tajikistan to improve the health of their people as part of their commitment to WHO’s Rehabilitation 2030 agenda.”
Financiado pela USAID Fortalecendo Serviços de Reabilitação em Sistemas de Saúde, o projeto é uma colaboração entre a UCP Wheels for Humanity e é apoiado pela Associação Ucraniana de Fisioterapia, a Assembleia Nacional Ucraniana de Pessoas com Deficiências, Fisioterapia Mundial e o Colégio Médico Republicano de Tajiquistão. O projeto será executado até meados de 2022.
