A delegation from Handicap International and the University of ENAM in Togo has visited Sierra Leone on the regional academic and normative training center for paramedical agents.
The objective of the visit is to discuss with the Ministry of Education Science and Technology and the College of Medicine and Allied Sciences about partnership that will create a link for students hoping to study paramedical courses in Togo.
ENAM University has trained 3,500 health workers equipped and capable of giving care to the individual the family and the community by helping them to reach a level of health leading to a productive life.
The university has five departments which include Nursing, Hygienic Assistants, physiotherapist, Orthopedic Technologies and Speech –Language Therapist.
It has a library equipped with more than 1,000 entries with a modernization of teaching methods which is a permanent opening to the world, a computer room equipped with 14 personnel computers connected to the internet.
The University also has a resource for pedagogical audio-visual aids different from the blackboard, overhead projector, video projector and television. It also intends to bring in new courses of study in the areas of Health Executive Manager, Courses at Masters Level, Pharmacist Assistants Bachelor level and Optician at Bachelor level.
ENAM University also partners with SFD of ICRC, Orthophonises du Monde (OdM), TATCOT Tanzania, ISTR de Valence in France, ISTR France, International Society for Orthotics and Prosthetic and IFSI de Dole France.
The visiting delegation comprised of Veronique MONARD Project Officer and Anareme Monarad a trainer at the paramedic center and the University has students from 23 countries in Africa and a student from France.