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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

A Medical Doctor urgently needed in Kalimantan

Are you interested in a challenging job working in remote Kalimantan working to serve the underserved community? if you are, Please, read the TOR and send your application to email address below ASAP . Only SHORTLISTED candidate will notified.

JOB DESCRIPTION

MEDICAL DOCTOR
Starting date: 24 March 2007
Duration of the contract: 1 month
Country: INDONESIA
Place of work: Kalimantan (2 weeks) and Jakarta.

MDM Background in Indonesia

Médecins du Monde France has programs in Indonesia since 1998, first in North Maluku and in Papua. The country strategy is to focus on access to primary health care for the most vulnerable population.
Four programs are currently implemented:


Primary Health Care and Infectious Diseases Prevention Program in the Puncak Jaya District of Papua.

Primary Health Care in the slum areas of North Jakarta.

Primary Health Care for the Punan population of East-Kalimantan.

MDM has pre-positioned a Disaster Kit and identified human resources in order to intervene appropriately in case of emergency and to assess further needs.


MDM’s mission in Kalimantan

Tubu River is located in Malinau, a new district in East Kalimantan. Health Service for the population is available in the capital (Puskesmas Malinau, and the district hospital in Respen) and from Puskesmas Pulau Sapi.
Outreach activity from the Puskesmas Pulau Sapi is held once a year, but do not cover all villages.
Médecins du Monde’s mission in Kalimantan started in October 2005. In each visit, we provided medical consultation for the inhabitants of the Tubu River. We also train a group of kaders that will accompany the expedition as translators and health educators.
In March 2007 we started a vaccination campaign covering children under 15 years and women. Additional activities developed last year were family planning promotion, toothbrushes and mosquito net distribution.

This mission will be the 9th visit to the area by MdM and the fourth providing vaccinations.

The main activities to carry out will be IEC, Vaccination, and Medical Consultation.
Before the mission there will be a vaccination training with the health centre staff in Malinau.
The doctor will receive a complete briefing in Jakarta before departure to Kalimantan and will produce the medical report afterwards with the support of Jakarta team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Main purpose

Provide medical care during the mission in Tubu River and coordinate the vaccination campaign. Participate in the training in Malinau, previous to the mission.

General functions:
Prepare the medical mission
Participate in the training in Malinau
Provide medical consultations during Tubu expedition
Coordinate vaccination campaign
Support the kaders during health education sessions
Provide medical care to MdM staff during the mission.
Produce the medical report after the mission.

Responsabilities:

Prepare the medical mission:
Compile information of pharmacy stock and organize the order of drugs
Collect the medical information from previous missions and prepare the medical data files
Coordinate with the others parteners: MoH at district and health centre, Punan foundation, CIFOR .

Vaccination training.
Prepare the training material with the support of the coordination team in Jakarta
Participate in the training in Malinau
Provide medical consultations during Tubu expedition
Provide medical consultations during the mission, following the standard of MdM (see essential dugs and therapeutic guidelines)
Complete the health card consultations and compile morbidity data
Supervised the nurses and kaders activities during consultations.
Coordinate vaccination campaign
Organize and supervise vaccination activities in the field
Supervise, with the field coordinator the cold chain during mission.
Supervise data collection during the vaccination
Collect and compile vaccinations information following the standard form.
Support the kaders during health education sessions
Participate in the health education session and promote active participation of the comunity
Supervise the content of the information
Support kaders in the elaboration of the IEC material
Provide medical care to MdM staff during the mission.
Give medical treatment to the members of the mission.
Organize a medical evacuation if required, with the support of Jakarta team.
Produce the medical report after the mission.
Summarize all medical information in a medical report, following the model of previous missions.

Skills ans qualifications:
Medical doctor with diploma
Clinical experience in Primary health care and emergencies
Recommended experience in humanitarian organization.
Knowledge of windows environment (word, excel)
Training and communication skills
Ability to plan, coordinate and establish priorities
Fluent English written and spoken.
Good physical condition is required.

Dr. Belen
Medical Coordinator
Medecins du Monde (Dokter Dunia)
Jl. Dharmawangsa XII No. 10
Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12150
Indonesia

mdmjakarta3@yahoo.fr

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