REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (REOI)

Country:                                  Ministry of Finance (MoF) - Federal Republic of Somalia

Project:                                    Somalia Crisis Recovery Project (P173315)

Assignment Title:                    Laboratory Consultant - Kismayo Regional Hospital – Jubbaland

Reference No.:                       SO-MOF-383303-CS-INDV      

Duty Station:                          Kismayo Regional Hospital – Jubbaland

Closing Date:                          February 15, 2024, at 11:00 hours (East Africa Time)

1.      Background to the Project

Decades of conflict, recurrent climatic shocks, disease outbreaks, large-scale evictions, desert locusts, and increasing poverty, are causing serious public health emergencies in Somalia. In order to mitigate recurrent emergencies, a multisectoral Somalia Crisis Response Project (SCRP), supported by the World Bank was launched in September 2020. The SCRP has 5 components, of which the 3rd supports the longer-term emergency preparedness and response.

The SCRP’s Component 3 aims to improve longer-term disaster risk management and preparedness support for Somalia focusing on rehabilitation of infrastructure, strengthening Disease Surveillance & Response Systems, enhancing laboratory capacity, establishing critical care units in eight (8) selected regional hospitals, and improving country level management capacity. Currently, Somalia’s health system lacks the infrastructure, equipment, capacity, prioritization, integrated service delivery, and provision of both basic and advanced life-saving treatment facilities in most regional hospitals. COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected health services and brought to light the fragile context of emergency care delivery systems in Somalia. Building critical and intensive care units requires a comprehensive plan to equip the health care facilities with biomedical equipment and, more importantly, a well-trained multidisciplinary team.

In this regard, the Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services seeks the services of Medical Laboratory Consultant to join a team of medical specialists, such as emergency/intensive care physician, anesthesiologist, blood bank technologist, laboratory specialist, and radiologist, to improve laboratory diagnostics and activities at Kismayo General Hospital, Jubbaland.

2.      Project Coverage and Duration

The Project primarily targets the three flood-affected states of Hirshabelle, Southwest, and Jubaland, while advancing a national approach to the locust response, longer-term resilience building, and the CERC (emergency COVID-19 activities). The financing instrument of the Project is an IDA-based Investment Project Financing, with an operational life of four years.

3.      Roles and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Director of the Hospital, the Medical Laboratory Consultant will be responsible for day-to-day Medical Laboratory duties, and reporting in compliance with Somalia’s laws and pertaining to the project related activities. The Medical Laboratory Consultant will provide professional technical, and operational assistance related to the Medical Laboratory including the collection of samples, processing, and storage when necessary; along with the corresponding reporting, record keeping, and other technical and administrative tasks, to facilitate patient care as well as project development, implementation, progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results. Detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) can be found at the following https://www.somalijobs.com/