June 2019: "Refresher course" for trainers

The 4-day refresher course took place at the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Butare, CHUB), where in June 2018 the first cohort of trainers was trained within the framework of the ESTHER hospital partnership between the Institute of International Health of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany) and the CHUB.

Trainers were able to apply their knowledge and skills by demonstrating and explaining the use of personal protective equipment to colleagues from their hospital. Joint practical exercises as well as small simulation sessions of measures to be taken after the detection of a suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case were also part of the course.

People practising the donning and doffing of the protective hood (© RKI)