Bardera Polytechnic College

Bardera Polytechnic College also known as BPC, is located in Baardheere, Gedo, Somalia. Baardheere Polytechnic College is another institution which receives various support from Somali Education and Health Organization (SEHO). Support include funding and capacity building services. Bardera Polytechnic College is an added advantage for the residents of Bardera District and Gedo region as a whole.

SEHO encourages collaborations and cross-training between supported institutions. As part of engaging community service centers, Bardera Maternity Hospital recieves continuous training and seminars from Bardera Polytechnic's health programs. Staff from both locations of Bardera Maternity, participate sessions designed to enhance the skills of the medical staff at Bardera Maternity Hospital and the hospital's services in general.

The director of Bardera Maternity Hospital (Somalia: Isbitaalka Ummulaha iyo Caruurta Baardheere) and her staff, attend monthly training meetings and the staff contributes ideas to courses currently taken by students from different health programs at Bardera Polytechnic. Nursing and pharmacy courses are the first two health programs implemented at BPC. Laboratory course was added shortly after.

Background

Bardera Polytechnic, as the only college in the area with structured two to three years study programs, satisfies both of SEHO's health and education goals for the communities it funds. The college has direct and hands-on training relations with Bardera Maternity Hospital. The college system also trains new health workers for positions currently available in Gedo and surrounding regions' health centers. The school is locally known as Kulyada Farsamada Baardheere.

The long term goal for this effort is to be ready for any future demand for people with skills and educational backgrounds in the health and education sectors of Jubba Valley Regions and other southern Somalia regions. Throught seminars and awareness programs, enhancing services and products currently offered from community and hospital pharmacies in the region is also one of the main goals of the college. Lack of governmental enforcement agency and the absence of self-deciplining guidelines for pharmacy operators and owners, has caused the standards and quality of services and products from pharmacies in Somalia to be one of the lowest in the world.

Since the collapse of the Somali Centeral Governmnt in 1991, no degree of services and products quality assurance exist in somalia at all. Unsafe pharmaceutical products are found in all major cities in Somalia, from Mogadishu to Kismayo to Hargeisa. Local authorities sometimes go out and find expired medicines and the only course of action is to burn the products. Most teaching centres have not yet developed strategies to combat the lack of standardrization in services and products. Bardera Polytechnic's major community development goals include improving the standards in all areas of service.

When all development phases are concluded, the college will train more health care workers including nurses, midwives, junior pharmacists, veterinary technicians, laboratory technicians and graduates with other skills including management and public services skills; skills which are needed to develop the economic sectors of the region.

SEHO funds programs which are designed to enhance living and service standards of involved communities. Since Bardera is an agricultural region, the college system has also established agricultural sciences department in collaboration with farming associations.

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