By The Respondents Reporter
The Ministry of Health has intensified efforts to strengthen Tanzania's readiness to respond to public health emergencies, including Ebola, through a joint supportive supervision exercise at TPC Hospital in Kilimanjaro Region.
The exercise, conducted on Wednesday, brings together the Ministry's Department of Emergency and Disaster Management, the President's Office–Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), and CIHEB Tanzania under the Global Health Security Project.
The initiative targets frontline healthcare workers serving in the hospital's Emergency Medicine Department (EMD), Intensive Care Unit (ICU), ambulance services and other emergency response units, with the aim of improving the quality and coordination of emergency and critical care services.
During the exercise, multidisciplinary teams are providing hands-on mentorship, assessing the delivery of emergency services and offering technical guidance to strengthen the hospital's capacity to manage medical emergencies and disease outbreaks.
The programme places particular emphasis on enhancing preparedness for Ebola by equipping healthcare workers with practical skills in emergency response, patient management and infection prevention and control.
Officials said the supportive supervision approach combines workplace-based coaching with service quality assessments, enabling health workers to identify operational gaps and implement improvements while maintaining continuity of patient care.
The exercise forms part of Tanzania's broader health security strategy to strengthen emergency preparedness and response systems across health facilities, ensuring they are better equipped to detect, contain and manage infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies.
