Medical Specialist Health Worker

CURRICULUM VIRTAE

DAVIE CHISOMO BANDA

Chigoneka Community Day Secondary School

Post Office Box 30676

Lilongwe, Malawi

daivebandagmail.com l +265-********* / +265-*********

A.PROFILE

David Chisomo Banda born on 3rd November, 1996 is a single young Malawian man from Kasungu district, an enthusiastic Health worker and well trained in clinical Medicine. He is capable of organising his time effectively, prioritizing tasks, and use his initiative to come up with solutions to problems hence makes him a top task performer.

B. WORK EXPERIENCE

May 2016 –September 2017 Bwaila Hospital

October 2017 Up to-Date Maula Prison Health Centre

Position: Medical Technician

Duties

Ensure that the Health Facility is friendly to all individuals, the youth and key population

Screening prisoners at entry, stay, and exit for TB, HIV, STI, and other medical conditions

Enrolling those newly diagnosed HIV Positive on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)

Documentation of successful stories and ensure that they provide guidance to the project implementation

Offering ART services to individuals affected and infected with HIV/AIDS

Provision of Intensive Adherence Counselling to patients on ART and TB

Clinic mentor in HIV/ART, TB, Nutrition to prison health staff

Viral Load monitoring according to what it is stipulated in the guidelines

Linking and following up of inmates on ART/TB treatment when exiting the prison

Diagnosing and screening patients and prescribing treatments during outpatient department services

Selecting patients for review by General Medical Officer or Clinical Officer

Examining patients manually and making references for patients and staff.

Referring patients to surgical / medical specialist and conducting minor surgeries and local anaesthesia

Assessing for malnutrition in adults and enrolling the malnourished ones on nutrition program

To ensure that risk assessment and risk reduction plan is done through counselling to patients at STI clinic and partners referral (Notification Slip) is issued

Provision of antenatal and post-natal services to pregnant women and lactating mothers

Recording data in relevant register and instrumentals, compiling and analysing monthly data, performing monthly monitoring, disseminating and quarterly reports to relevant stakeholders including the designated supervisor as the HMIS guideline

Writing ART report every quarter (cohort analysis)

To ensure that monthly and quarterly work plans are developed for all programs at the facility and implementation is done according to the time frame

Making the facility pharmacy including making orders in time and writing monthly pharmacy report Preparing timely monthly pharmacy orders

Provision of family planning services both short and long term methods

Provision of Infection Prevention Methods

C.OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• Trained in sexually Transmitted Infections New guidelines

• Trained in Integrated Management of HIV and TB in Children and Adults by The Ministry of Health

• Trained as a 1st Line ART Provider by The Ministry of Health in the year 2017

• Trained as a 2nd Line ART provider by Medicins Sans Frontiers (M.S.F) in Conjunction with the Ministry of Health in the year 2018

D. EDUCATION

Malawi College of Health Sciences

Certificate in Clinical Medicine (2015)

Major Courses: Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology

MalawiSchoolsCertificateofEducation(M.S.C.E)Chigoneka CommunityDaySecondaryS (2013)

E. SKILLS

Proficiency: Proficient in facilitation, Research and Analysis

Computer: skilled in Microsoft Office Applications, and Statistical Packages (SPSS, MS Excel).

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