Publications by authors named "Carol Mugabo"
Introduction/background: Safe and quality surgery is crucial for child health. In Rwanda, district hospitals serve as primary entry points for pediatric patients needing surgical care. This paper reports on the organizational readiness and facility capacity to provide pediatric surgery in three district hospitals in rural Rwanda.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Paediatric surgical care is a critical component of child health and basic universal health coverage and therefore should be included in comprehensive evaluations of surgical capacity. This study adapted and validated the Children's Surgical Assessment Tool (CSAT), a tool developed for district and tertiary hospitals in Nigeria to evaluate hospital infrastructure, workforce, service delivery, financing, and training capacity for paediatric surgery, for use in district hospitals in Rwanda.
Methods: We used a three-round modified Delphi process to adapt the CSAT to the Rwandan context.
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health threat. Worse still, there is a paucity of data from low- and middle-income countries to inform rational antibiotic use.
Objective: Assess the feasibility of setting up microbiology capacity for AMR testing and estimate the cost of setting up microbiology testing capacity at rural district hospitals in Rwanda.
Article Synopsis
- Curative direct-acting antiviral treatment (DAA) can help eliminate hepatitis C, but a lack of patient knowledge poses a challenge for effective screening and treatment.
- *In a study of 333 rural Rwandan patients starting DAA, pre-treatment knowledge showed that many were unaware of critical information about hepatitis C, such as its curability and potential health risks.
- *Post-treatment, while knowledge improved significantly, misconceptions about transmission routes remained common, highlighting the need for targeted public education efforts.*