North Star works at the crossroads of disease and mobility to ensure that highly-mobile populations, especially truck drivers and their direct and indirect contacts have access to basic health services. North Star is strengthening national health systems by expanding their reach and plugging the gaps through a network of “Roadside Wellness Centres” (RWCs) located at hotspots along the most important transport corridors in sub-Saharan Africa.
First milestone completed!
19 September 2011
Virginie Lepretre
4 Comments
Saturday the 17th of September was a very special day for North Star, all teams have been mobilized during the last months to prepare the roll out of the new Comets (Corridor Medical Transfer System) version.
Thanks to the great work and implication of the teams, it has been a real success today.
All the centers located in 8 different countries are now working with this new version of Comets which contains enhancements about referral clinics management, inventory stock management and new reporting functionality …
Roll Out Manager for North Star Alliance...
18 August 2011
Virginie Lepretre
North Star Alliance is offering healthcare services to mobile populations, especially truck drivers and their direct and indirect contacts.
To reach those mobile populations, North Star is opening clinics called "Roadside Wellness Centres" (RWCs) located at hotspots along the most important transport corridors in sub- saharan Africa.
North Star has developped in partnership with ORTEC an IT system (COMETS) that extends the continuum of care, collects essential data and reinforces quality insurance.
Got home in Africa
11 August 2011
Marc Bullens
What am I here for.
West Africa is struggling with a rapidly increasing number of HIV/Aids patient and the international community has decided to put a lot of effort in this Afica wide problem.
Expecialy mobile populations like truckdrivers are highly vulnerable to HIV. Those people are only paid for the time they drive. When the are sick, as they are not paid for that time spent, they do not go to a hospital and take their sickness, often infections, through the different countries where they travel. Therfore they are the most powerfull vector for the spread of HIV/AIDS
Bringing North Star to TNT Benelux
28 June 2011
Gerard Steehouder
I’m Gerard Steehouder, 50 years of age, and working for TNT Express Benelux as a Technical Project Leader within the ICS department in Houten, running diverse IT-related projects.
Implementing and training people to using new software, hardware, etc. I also frequently facilitate departmental movements and reconstruction work, all in the “IT” work field.
Dar es Salaam, Tunduma, Tanzania & Mlolongo Kenya
17 February 2011
Gerard Steehouder
Writing this entry, I've visited and trained the clincians of Dar es Salaam and Tunduma in Tanzania and the last location of my program, Mlolongo in Kenya.
I was almost one week behind in updating my blog due to internet connectivity and the lack of time due to the tight schedule, but I was able to train all three clinician and get all software installed and working.
Dar es Salaam is located just outside the city, in the industrial area, many local community members visit this centre, but that goes for almost every centre.
Uganda/Rwanda @ Centre's Malaba and Katuna
13 February 2011
Gerard Steehouder
Centre's Malaba and Katuna, both in Uganda are ready to start working with Comets now.
I'm one week behind on my blog, but that's because of not having power in the free time I had left at the end of my days, or even no internet connection....it seems to be common in all these countries.
I've finished training the clinicians in both centre's and had to do some more work via remote connection cause almost everyday there are these outages, which we don't control.
1900 kms for Namanga, Salgaa and Emali
04 February 2011
Gerard Steehouder
Last week at Namanga, Salgaa and Emali, all in Kenya
Mombasa Kenya, another clinic, new challenges and meeting an WFP colleague
04 December 2010
Gerard Steehouder
After leaving Mai Mahiu last week, and now in Mombasa, with just one last task open on my list of things, like last week, getting the Comets system to connect to it's main system and other clinic's, unfortunately I must say, I didn't succeed for 100 % as getting and keeping an connection running, but as of Sundayevening, Ian contacted me and it's working.
Pages
Blog categories
Latest blog posts
Subscribe to RSS
