Re: [Health-dev] GH Documentation project [Was: Working on the documentation]

[Yusif Suleiman]

Dear Luis,

Thanks for your feedback.

I really agreed with you.

I am currently planning to draft a report to Federal Ministry of Health through the Primary Health Care Development Agency on the use of GNUHealth as a HMIS flatform for the over 34,000 Primary Health Care facilities in Nigeria.  I will make recommendation for the creation of local team members at national level on the use of HMIS. 

I hope the Ministry will consider it, and by the time I finish the report, I hope the GNUHealth Android apps will be ready to meet some of their requirements.

Regards,

Yusuf

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From: Luis Falcon <falcon@gnuhealth.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2023 8:36 AM
To: Yusif Suleiman <yusifsuleiman@hotmail.com>
Cc: Gerald Wiese <wiese@gnuhealth.org>; health-dev@gnu.org <health-dev@gnu.org>
Subject: GH Documentation project [Was: Working on the documentation]

 

Dear Yusif, Armand and Gerald

On Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:46:09 +0100
Yusif Suleiman <yusifsuleiman@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am very happy with this development, this will really help so many
> people expecially in developing countries where such systems are few.

Thank you! <3

> I introduced gnuhealth to many people and small settings, but many
> failed to fully install and configure the system to their
> expectations, and because they start to work with it on the
> recommendation not to have much Interest, the abandoned the project
> once they encounter any difficulties.

The key for sustainable implementations is local capacity.
Documentation is important, but even more important is having a local
team in the country / region that walks along each stage of the
implementation in the centers where is installed.

The reason GNU Health is a success in countries like Cameroon is
because we have local team members that know the system and know the
culture. They just don't install GNU Health and leave, but they're are
part of the project. They have build a local community and many
implementations for more than 7 years.


>
> I believed this is a step for making gnuhealth go higher.

Thank you! We're excited to have this new model for documentation, that
complements the Wikibook and will reach even further!

All the best
Luis

PS. Cleaned up a bit the subject due to original crossposting.