Improving the availability of poisons centre services in Eastern Africa
Highlights from a Feasibility Study for a Subregional Poison Centre in the Eastern Africa Subregion, including a toolkit on setting up a poisons information service.
Overview
This booklet presents a summarised synthesis of a project carried out to explore
the feasibility of a subregional poisons centre in Eastern Africa. The project was
initiated at the request of the SAICM Africa Core Group to address the lack of
poisons centres in the region, and was funded by the SAICM Quick Start Programme.
The project ran from January 2012 to December 2013.
The overall objective of the project was to find a means for improving the provision
of poisons centre services in Africa.
The countries included in this study were: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles,
Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Prior to the start
of the project, three poisons centres had been identified in the subregion: two in
Nairobi, Kenya and one in Harare, Zimbabwe.