Assessment 1B – Presentation 1 Identifying good practice

Introduction

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Caught in a Storm
The World Health Organization and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak and its Epilog

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Context of the Case and Associated Emergency

• Discussion aspects of Ebola and will determine how different healthcare professionals of the World Health Organization (WHO) have played a vital role
• The organization took multiple steps for making isolation wards, providing extra care to the patients and raised awareness
• Besides, the government also combined their efforts with the healthcare institutions to increase disease surveillance
• Tracked pathways of transmission, and even determined sites through which they will be able overcome key risk factors

Five Crisis Management Lessons Learned from the Case

• Ebola outbreak in East and Central Africa
• Majority of the people have been infected
• It was difficult for the local government to contain such larger regions (Burghardt et al., 2016)
• Also, prior to this West African pandemic, the Ebola outbreak was found to have occurred in Congo and Uganda (Feinmann, 2015)
• It was thereby more important for the WHO to participate in this issue

Five Crisis Management Lessons Learned from the Case (Contd.)

The major crisis management lessons that were learned during this period include –

• i) gathering data and determining affected areas
• ii) strengthen national and regional public health systems and other resources
• iii) ensure better team coordination among the emergency working teams
• iv) carry out effective communication and delegating tasks
• v) respond and report to the WHO headquarters all the time (Folayan, Haire, & Brown, 2016)
• vi) The senior management at WHO will then be able to monitor upon the given position

Five Leadership Lesions Identified from the Case

• WHO Assistant Director General informed – there is a need to control the severity of the pandemic
• It will be more important to stop transmission
• However, it will be difficult to implement all the measures (Ifediora & Aning, 2017)
• It is thereby the responsibility of the leader to inform all the working teams about the objectives of treatment plan
• The teams also need to be provided with required resources through (Kim et al., 2016)

Five Leadership Lesions Identified from the Case

• Crucial for leaders to train the working staff
• In addition, it can also be found that the leader will need to follow the principles of openness, accountability, transparency, and integrity
• This will ensure that all the teams working in such an environment

Dilemma of Leadership Observed in the Case

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Dilemma of Leadership Observed in the Case

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Constraints and Opportunities for Leaders in the Case

• There are constraints observed in this case, wherein both the government teams and the WHO teams were lacking in having the required resources (Melanie O’Brien & Tolosa, 2016)
• Also, there was lack of national and regional associations
• In addition, there were multiple healthcare programs (Monson, 2017)

Constraints and Opportunities for Leaders in the Case

• There was even limited experience, supplies, equipment, training, facilities, and knowledge regarding (Rojek, Horby, & Dunning, 2017)
• The leaders need to provide them with all types of support
• Also, it will be more important for the WHO experts to deploy right facilities, equipment, and resources (Tiffany et al., 2017)

Most Inspiring Moment and Lessons for the Future

• The most inspiring moment of this Ebola outbreak that took place in Africa was the efforts that the WHO put in (Webster, 2015)
• None of the WHO experts had any prior experience to tackle Ebola
• In addition, it was rather more difficult for them to even spread awareness on this issue

Most Inspiring Moment and Lessons for the Future

• Also, the leaders at WHO constantly monitored the situation
• They later then provide recommendation on how to overcome the magnitude of the epidemic
• Also, WHO ensured that other nations of the world will participate in this issue and offer their help (Webster, 2015)
• Thus, there are several aspects that need to be learned and implemented from the future case scenario

References

• Burghardt, K., Verzijl, C., Huang, J., Ingram, M., Song, B., & Hasne, M. (2016). Testing modeling assumptions in the West Africa Ebola outbreak.Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group), 6, 34598-34599.
• Feinmann, J. (2015). Restoring Africa’s health systems after Ebola.BMJ: British Medical Journal, 351, 1-12.
• Folayan, M. O., Haire, B. G., & Brown, B. (2016). Critical role of ethics in clinical management and public health response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic.Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 9, 55-65.
• Ifediora, O. F., & Aning, K. (2017). West africa’s ebola pandemic: Toward effective multilateral responses to health crises.Global Governance, 23(2), 225-244.
• Kim, J. B. R., van Duinen, A.J., Nordenstedt, H., Höijer, J., Molnes, R., Torunn, W. F., . . . Ekström, A. (2016). The impact of the West Africa Ebola outbreak on obstetric health care in sierra leone.PLoS One, 11(2), 50-60.
• Melanie O’Brien, & Tolosa, M. X. (2016). The effect of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic on multi-level violence against women.International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 9(3), 151-160.
• Monson, S. (2017). Ebola as African: American media discourses of panic.Africa Today, 63(3), 2-27.
• Rojek, A., Horby, P., & Dunning, J. (2017). Insights from clinical research completed during the West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic.The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 17(9), e280-e292.
• Tiffany, A., Dalziel, B. D., Njenge, H. K., Johnson, G., Ballah, R. N., James, D., . . . McClelland, A. (2017). Estimating the number of secondary Ebola cases resulting from an unsafe burial and risk factors for transmission during the West Africa Ebola epidemic.PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(6), 58-63.
• Webster, S. (2015). Tackling Ebola in Africa: A warning to the world.Emergency Nurse 23(6), 18-20.