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MEDICAL DOCTOR / MISRATA

•       Act as interpreter for staff when necessary

•       Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, and to ensure that they have understood.

•       Follow up the evolution of the referred patients, through visits, upon the advice of medical referent, and ensuring that the treatment is at par with the recommendations for the particular condition.

•       Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.

•       Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the medical referent about any problem or complication of the patients’ illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.

•       Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical staff in order to optimize the quality of care.

•       Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.

·         Applies medical knowledge & skills and follows MSF protocols and Guidelines to the diagnosis, prevention and management of diseases to patients coming to MSF’s health facilites, mobile clinics, including an holistic management for VoT (Victims of Torture) patients and ensuring that the Medical Legal Certificate is completed.

·         Keeps the OPD cards and Registers up to date by noting the details of examinations, diagnosis and treatments and ensuring the application of prescriptions.

·         Keeps the data sheets (TB, Malnutrition, referrals, etc) update after every activity with accurate information.

• Knows and ensures that MSF procedures are followed in the case of accidental blood exposure.

·         Ensuring that a timely decision is taken for referral of a patient to appropriate structure/speciality and informing the Medical Referrent to finalize a necessary course of action. Ensures an adequate and update filling of the referral database after every patient referred.

·         Conducts a follow-up of the patients in OPD and the ones referred to other structures/facilities and ensures a complete understanding from the patient, using a translator when necessary to ensure a good communication.

·         Ensures a good communication and sharing of the information about patients and context with Medical Referent, MAM, NAM, Mental Health team, Protection team in order to have an holistic management of the patients.

·         Take part in  exploratory mission/visit as may be requested by the medical referrent or project coordinator. Prepare reports about these visits, to inform the rest of the team about the activities.

·         Attends applicable meetings and/or trainings

·         Participates in super cleaning actvities in all activity sites including the TB unit.

•       Commitment

•       Flexibility

•       Results

•       Teamwork