REHABICA POD

In this episode, Thaaniyah Gydien takes us through her perspective on the rehabilitation workforce from the point of view of a speech therapist in South Africa. There are quite a number of factors that affect patient outcome and the strength of the multidisciplinary team plays such an important role. 

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In this episode, Dr Kweku Laast shares his insights on team building strategies within a rehabilitation team and how he is contributing to improving the rehabilitation workforce in Ghana. 

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Creating an educational system that is accessible to all in Africa to facilitate the training of medical rehabilitation professionals is becoming a priority amongst educators as we join the WHO to adopt a competency-based educational system. With us on this podcast is Michael Rowe, an Associate Professor and the Departmental Chairperson of Physiotherapy at University of Western Cape. He is the co-founder of In Beta, a virtual community of physiotherapy educators, and the founding editor of OpenPhysio, an open access journal with a focus on physiotherapy education.

To find Michael Rowe's research papers, click Here and to read more about adapting WHO's Rehabilitation competency framework stepwise approach to developing a rehabilitation education and training programme and curriculum that can be used to support competency-based education, click here to read more

This episode features a special edition with the community leads of Rehabica( Ayobami Fasuba, Krista Asoluka, Damilola Martins) as they share how the idea "REHABCA" was formed, the experiences so far and the plans to create an all-inclusive rehabilitation community to foster growth.

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This month, we kicked off our Pan-African webinar series titled the state of rehabilitation in Africa and we will be sharing a short adaptation of the keynote address delivered by WHO consultant Wouter De Groote. To watch the complete webinar recording kindly click here: https://bit.ly/PAW1Recording-Rehabica 

The Rehabilitation 2030 goals were launched in 2017 which served as a call to action for rehabilitation organisations to unite to address unmet needs in rehab). In this podcast, you will learn about WHO strategic goals and implementation among the African Rehabilitation community. 

Nigeria is the largest black nation globally, with a current population estimated to be over 200 million. Nigeria is ranked the second-highest in road accidents and other emergencies(death and disabilities) among 193 countries of the world. Lagos is the only one with an organized state-run emergency medical service and a working public safety answering point/emergency communication centre of all the states in Nigeria. 

In this episode, we are joined by Mr Charles Chiagoziem, a clinical prosthetist and orthotist who has focused on delivering ambulance services through his company (hiblance.com). We discuss the current state of emergency services in Nigeria and the need to standardize these services with the available competency framework provided by the WHO.  

World hearing day is an annual global advocacy event that aims to raise awareness on hearing loss and related issues. As part of our contribution to lend our voices to this awareness campaign, we hosted one of our community members, Benjamin Tetteh Amartey who is a Ghanaian audiologist. We explored the misconceptions of ear care and general conversations around hearing loss. 

This is the first part of a conversation on the "ACT OF BILLING REHABILITATION SERVICES" webinar we had in November with Mr. Felix Obi and Dr Oginni. This particular episode focuses on how rehabilitation services are currently paid for and the challenges it comes with especially for the African professional. 

An occupational therapist is well-respected members of the rehabilitation team. However, in Africa, we have seen an unproportionate ratio of occupational therapists to the population that require their services. So we ask Mr Victor Iki in this episode, why he chose occupational therapy and discuss generally OT practice in west Africa.