Elias Jose Amaral

Position and Responsability:

Team Leader and Public Health Assistant

Publict Health Assistant:

- Support team leader in performing h checklist.

- Support team by voluntarily taking up task of selected record keeping of perform record keeping task as per instruction by the team leader.

- Provide input during meetings particularly while preparing mission plan.

- Help in loading the necessary equipment in the vehicles.

- Support in unloading of the equipment.

- Support in setting up.

- Perform prescreening counseling.

- Use questionnaire to suspected cases and refer the client to Chest Xray unit.

- Provide counseling to suspected TB cases about further process.

- Support in obtaining On-Site sputum samples.

- Female FA should be used as a chaperone while female client in undergoing Chest Xray.

- Provide data to GeneXpert team member who will update the sheet in shared on drive.

Team Leader/ Mission Leader

- Make mission plan in consultation with Programme Manager and project assistant and include expected numbers according to the indicators.

- Make sure all requirements for travel are in place and acquired (Equipment, Letters, Travel Request, Contingency budget (in coordination with finance assistant) and security clearance).

- Ensure all equipment are in place.

- Ensures timely start of the screening process.

- Ensure on spot sputum collection is being done.

- Ensure taking note of clients who were not able to provide sputum sample.

- Ensure timely and effective sputum samples transferred to GeneXpert center (depends on the distance from the screening center)

- Ensure to provide referral letter to the clients who have diagnosed with other health condition that needs immediate medical attention.

- Support other field members in screening activity.

Following completion of the screening activity for that day:

- As a team leader, send daily activity report to program manager including any challenges that might affect the mission or project.

- Ensure that no sputum samples are left to process.

- Ensure that all online data is correctly stored in the shared one drive.

- Team leader meeting with medical staff presenting the achievement of activity.

- Challenges

- Submits mission report.