Female Medical Doctor / CHO at Medecins Du Monde

SUPERVISOR :
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

MDM is seeking female clinicians to work in our Primary Health Care facilities in Damboa and Maiduguri ***

• Under the supervision of the team leader, the Mobile Clinic Doctor/CHO will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:
• Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings

TASKS DESCRIPTION

• Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
• Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before to leave MdM office
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing curative health consultations
• Participate actively in triage activities before to start curative health consultations

Perform curative consultations:

Take a proper medical history including:

• Reason for consultation
• Duration of the illness or complaints
• Main symptoms
• Past medical history and treatment.
• Perform a correct physical examination:
• Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation
• Systematic checking of signs of severity                                   
• Diagnose and treat the diseases according to protocols in use (i.e. clinical guidelines)
• Write the most important complaints, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s registration form.
• Explain the treatment to the patient
• Give individual health education related to the patient’s disease
• Manage emergency cases according to MdM protocols and regulation
• Fill in the registration form for each patient, according to the diagnosis of the morbidity surveillance form
• Check the immunization status for all EPI targeted children and referred the unvaccinated children to the vaccinator
• Investigate any information regarding unusual health events or diseases outbreak, provided through any source
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
• Ensure that all the 6-59 months children have been screened (MUAC, H/W and edemas)
• Admit new cases in OTP program according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol and give systematic treatment for SAM cases
• Ensure weekly follow up of SAM cases and adapt RUTF doses
• Discharge cases according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol
• Refer complicated SAM cases to identified Stabilization Center
• Fill in the specific OTP form
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Perform the daily data collection regarding curative consultations
• Participate to the weekly computerization  and analysis of the medical data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate to all the  trainings organized by MDM

OTHERS:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to  the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field

REQUIREMENTS:

Essential

• Qualified Medical Doctor or Clinical Health Officer
• Completed Internship in Nigeria
• Strong work ethic, flexible, high level of integrity
• Fluent Hausa
• Desirable
• Experience in the humanitarian sector
• Local Languages (Kanuri, Fulani)