Responsibilities

• Under the supervision of the team leader, the Mobile Clinic Medical Doctor will be responsible for the following main activities to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:
• Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Take a proper medical history including:
• Reason for consultation
• Duration of the illness or complaints
• Main symptoms
• Past medical history and treatment.
• Perform a correct physical examination:
• Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation
• Systematic checking of signs of severity
• Diagnose and treat the diseases according to protocols in use (i.e. clinical guidelines)
• Write the most important complaints, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s registration form.
• Explain the treatment to the patient
• Give individual health education related to the patient’s disease
• Manage emergency cases according to MdM protocols and regulation
• Fill in the registration form for each patient, according to the diagnosis of the morbidity surveillance form
• Check the immunization status for all EPI targeted children and referred the unvaccinated children to the vaccinator
• Investigate any information regarding unusual health events or diseases outbreak, provided through any source
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
• Ensure that all the 6-59 months children have been screened (MUAC, H/W and edema)
• Admit new cases in OTP program according to the criteria of national nutrition protocol and give systematic treatment for SAM cases Ensure weekly follow up of SAM cases and adapt RUTF doses
• Discharge cases according to the criteria of national nutrition protocol
• Refer complicated SAM cases to identified Stabilization Center
• Fill in the specific OTP form
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Perform the daily data collection regarding curative consultations
• Participate to the weekly computerization and analysis of the medical data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Prepare weekly activities report to submit to team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate in all the trainings organized by MDM