Jean Nepomuscene Hakizamungu

Professional Medical Doctor and Public Health Expert with 15 years of Clinical and Humanitarian work experience in Hospitals and Refugee settings as a national staff and international staff (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Central African Republic and Ethiopia); Holding numerous online and F2F training certificates related to clinics and humanitarian medicine.

• 08/24/23, 12/12/23, Project Medical Referent (PMR), MSF Belgium, Ensuring the Malnutrition hospital (ITFC and ITFC) are running smoothly according to the existing medical strategy., Strengthen the collaboration with Dubti General Hospital and Afar Regional Health Unit., Participate in the elaboration of outbreak response strategy and outbreak intervention. During my stay, we managed and stopped a Cholera outbreak, especially through the set up and management inside the CTC as it was mandated by the reginal health unit., Develop 2024 medical strategy moving the project from Emergency context to the stable and regular context.
• 06/01/22, 07/01/23, Project Medical Referrent (PMR), MSF Belgium, Organization of a Round Table (Table Ronde) for a multi-year strategy and subsequent 3 yearRoadmap writing., ARO (annual review of operations) preparation and writing., Coordinating medical activities of the project in the Bangassou Regional University Referral hospital (HRUB)., Coordination outreach activities of the project in Mbomou Prefecture., Leading the Advocacy activities through a developed Advocacy strategy of the project and ensuring close collaboration with other health partners to maximise the humanitarian response to the need of the people of concern., Develping EPREP strategy of the project and ensuring the project preparedness to adequately respond to emergency as per the strategy., Evaluation of displaced population needs and managed, with outreach team, to respond with mobili clinics at sometimes., Developing other medical strategies such as HIV/TB, Advocacy, Fixed and advanced catch up vaccination, outreach, Health promotion strategies, etc., Coordinating Watsan and IPC activities inside the HRUB and in the outreach health facilities, Matching the IMS for the medical department of the project., Managing national and international staff health.
• 09/28/20, 11/25/21, Medical Activity Manager (MAM), Medecins Sans Frontieres (OCB), Providing clinical and managerial support to medical team of Doctors, nurses, nutrition assistants and laboratory technicians managing malnutrition among children aged under 10 years. These malnurished children are either hospitalized with related medical complications in ITFC (ER, ICU, Phase I, Transition phase, Under-6 months and Isolation) or followed ambulatorily in ATFC., Actively participated in the elaboration of Measles outbreak response strategy and the subsequent Measles outbreak management in the isolation part of the Malnutrition hospital from January 2021 until my EOM., Actively participated in the elaboration of Cholera outbreak response strategy and the subsequent initiation and management of the outbreak in Bolori CTC starting August until end of my mission., Introduced the use of Telemedicine in the hospital, with support by Canada office. After training and regular online support meeting. We nominated 2 Focal Points, avail laptops and, I myself have been using TM for case referral and I also supervised my doctors to ensure the continuous use of TM., Actively participated in the 2022 ARO preparation., Acting PMR covering the gap of the position at different opportunities, this helped me to patronize and liaise with other health partners such as MdM, ICRC, IRC, ALIMA, etc., Planned/conducted many training for national Doctors, nurses, lab technicians and nutrition assistants with regards to malnutrition hospital activities and the above-mentioned outbreak response. I also trained all the staff on MCI/MCP(Mass casuality incident/Mass casuality plan) and related similation exercise.
• 01/02/20, 08/28/20, Medical Doctor, Medecins Sans Frontieres (OCB), Capacity building of MSF outreach team of nurses and midwives that supported the 10 PHUs located in the catchment area of the project., Training MOHS staff working in those PHUs with the aim of increasing their knowledge and skills with regard to proper medical care offered to under-five children, pregnant and lactating women, respect of principles and practice of infection prevention and control measures., Worked closely with the Midwife supervisor ensuring SRH activities (ANC, PNC, FP, Safe abortion care and Deliveries) are smothly conducted in the 10 PHUs., Training (together with the nurse supervisors) the PHU staff on Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI), this is a set of 9 modules according to WHO/MOHS document. The package we have offered contains also ETAT+ and Basic life support., In charge of staff health, both national and expatriate.
• 02/08/19, 08/30/19, Outreach Medical Doctor, Medecins Sans Frontieres (OCB), Supervision of 13 health centers ensuring the sataff provide medical care of good quality according to Guinean MOH standards and especially using IMNCI as a tool for management of under 5 children's diseases., Identification of the staff gaps and needs in terms of medical knowledge and skills, plan to train and mentor nurses and doctors working in those health facilities and also train and coach MSF team of nurse supervisors that help me mentoring the health center staff., In charge of capacity building for quality of care for Severe Acute Malnutrition and EPI (expanded program of immunization) in the 13 health centres., During the mission, I prepared and gave to MSF national teams of supervisors and the Health centers MOH staff training Supervision techniques; Lassa heamorrhagic fever feature, prevention and management; Essential newborn care; Anaemia diagnosis and management, skin disease diagnosis and management; Severe acute malnutrition rehabilitation; Integrated management of newborn and childhood diseases.
• 07/13/18, 12/26/18, Medical Doctor, MSF-OCB, Organization and persuing of daily clinical mobile activities rendered to Cameroonian (Ambazonian) refugees in Nigeria as well as the host community., Iinitiation of mobile clinical activities as well as routine nutritional screening during consultation of U5 children. By the end of my mission, 7 sites were successfuly operating and refugees around the sites were beneficiating from MSF mobile clinical services., Had a team of national doctors and nurses to supervise and work with; I trained them in most prevalent clinical aspects among refugees so as to render good quality medical services. This was in line with MSF clinical guidelines. They have been trained on malaria diagnosis and management, Hypertension management, Severe and Moderate acute malnutrition, Respiratory tract diseases management, ENT diseases management and GIT diseases management.
• 07/13/13, 06/30/18, Medical coordinator, American Refugee Committee (ARC), Provided technical and professional support to the nutrition centre, the community health services. I also head all services rendered to refugees throug the camp health centre. Those activities include the primary curative consultation, hospitalization, maternity, family planning, nutrition center (screening, nutritional education, counseling and rehabilitation), mental disorders management, vaccination, HIV care, IMNCI, pharmacy management, community health, relation with the district hospital., Collaborated with other partners such as Plan International, UNHCR, Humanity and Inclusion (Former Handicap International), Ngarama district Hospital, IOM, etc., Collaborated wel with IOM and UNHCR by preparing Medical Documents for refugees needing resettlement to abroad on medical background., In charge of the management of the health sector personnel., Got a training on Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care (BEmONC) with UNFPA and ARC.
• 04/01/15, 05/01/15, Medical Doctor, ARC, Appointed by ARC to initiate all health related activities in a new refugee camp, Mahama burundian refugee camp., Coordinated the start of operational health and nutririon centers., Created a well functioning group of community health workers to prevent occurrence of epidemics in the new camp., Initiated the HIV care and treatment serrvice, including the PMTCT as a unit of ANC service.
• 01/09/09, 07/01/10, Clinician Medical officer, Nyagatare district hospital, During the first year, I was the head of the maternity ward, solving gynechological problems, doing ultra sound, making daily ward round for admitted women and performing cesarian sections as needed., The whole second year, I was the head of Paediatric department, making daily ward round for admitted children., During the third year, I headed the surgical ward department, making minor surgical procedures, orthopedic reductions and making daily ward round for hospitalized patients., During the fourth year, I was the head of Internal medicine department, making daily ward round for hospitalised patients. One day per week, I had to make a supervision of health centres regarding the prevention and management of malaria, HIV care including medical consultation of adults and children living with HIV., During the service period, I used to receive either in OPD or Emergency sick prisoners from Nyagatare Prison since the hospital had a signed MoU with the prison for treatment of sick prisoners. I worked closely with the prison nurse., During the academic year 2009-2010, while working in the same hospital, I was also a part-time lecturer at Nyagatare School of Nursing and Midwifery. This was one of the MOH-affiliated schools that was located near the above mentioned hospital where I was working as clinician. I was lecturing Dermatology, Stomatology and Parasitology. Note that I also had to coach and mentor nursing and midwifery students sent by the school for internship in the above mentioned hospital.
• 08/01/10, 06/01/11, Medical Officer, UNAMID-DARFUR/SUDAN, Headed a medical team that provided medical escort to UN soldiers and staff., In charge of providing medical care to UN staff., Awarded with a UNAMID medal and a certificate of excellence.

• Populations in precarious situations (PSP), Epicentre, Bordeaux, 02/01/23, 03/01/23
• GHHM (Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine) course, MSF UK, 06/01/21, 05/01/22
• E-Paediatrics course, MSF-OCBA, 03/01/20, 03/01/20
• Epidemiology, MSF-OCG, 11/12/20
• First Line Medical Training (FLMT), MSF, Brussels, 03/18/19, 03/29/19
• Infection Prevention and Control, MSF-OCBA, 03/01/20
• HIV-TB, MSF Tembo
• Preparation for Primary Departure (PPD), Roma, 03/18/18, 03/23/18

• USAID-Demographic and health Survey-Data use, USAID, 10/01/14
• USAID-Malaria, USAID, 10/01/14
• Preventing violence against women and gender inequality in peacekeeping, Peace Operations Training Institute, 01/26/11
• Ethique et maintien de la paix, Peace Operations Training Institute, 03/14/11
• Appui logistique opérationnel aux missions de maintien de la paix, Peace Operations Training Institute, 02/19/11
• Maintien de la paix et résolution internationale des conflits, Peace Operations Training Institute, 03/02/11
• Terrorisme global, Peace Operations Training Institute, 01/22/11
• Paediatric and adult HIV care and Treatment, Rwanda MOH, 05/17/10
• Initiation à la prise en charge des problèmes de santé mentale, Rwanda MOH, 11/16/09
• Management of TB, TB/HIV, MDR-TB and Leprosy, Rwanda MOH, 05/21/12
• National guidelines 2013 for prevention and management of HIV, STIs and OBBI, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, 05/19/14
• Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Neonatal Care (BEmONC), ARC, 08/01/16
• Screening, diagnosis and management of anaemia, ARC, 04/19/17
• Timed and Targeted Counselling (TTC) in Health and Nutrition, World Vision International, 08/21/17
• Cervical Cancer screening with VIA and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions using Cryotherapy and Cold coagulation, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, 10/02/17
• Diagnosis and Management of Non-Communicable diseases, Primary Care International, 11/27/17
• Medical Certification of causes of death (MCCOD) and ICD-10 coding, Rwanda MOH, 05/23/21

• Dr Freddy Sangala, Project Coordinator, ALIMA, freddysangala@gmail.com, +250788450054
• Dr Yvonne Nzomukunda, RST1 Medical coordinator, Kinshasa, Yvonne.nzomukunda@brussels.msf.org, +243808319980

• Rwanda Medical and Dental Council, Registration number 1161

• Licensed: Rwanda Medical and Dental Council, Reg number 1161 (Active).
• Rwanda Allied Health Professional Council, registered as Public Health Specialist