Waqainabete Congratulates Community Health Workers
WILL ASSIST PEOPLE SUCH AS MAINTAINING GOOD CHILD HEALTH, AND SAFE MOTHERHOOD
The Minister for Health and Medical Services, Dr Ifereimi Waqainabet,e congratulated 23 community health workers in Serua, who successfully completed the intensive training in basic health services.
This training was jointly facilitated by the Serua Provincial Council and the Serua/Namosi medical sub-division team and funded by the Latter Day Saints charity. The workers are members of the community, who are trained by public health nurses.
They will assist people on issues such as maintaining good child health, safe motherhood and promote wellness.
At the same time they work closely with the zone nurses who attend to patients in the villages during the outreach programmes.
While closing the training yesterday, Minister Waqainabete reminded the health workers about the importance of their roles.
“I am certain that this training will be of immense benefit to you in delivering the much-needed assistance to your fellow villagers,” he said.
The minister also acknowledged the timely assistance by the LDS charity in providing basic dispensary medical equipment to assist workers while rendering their services.
The Ministry of Health aims to promote wellness, strengthen its primary, secondary and tertiary health care.
And as part of its wellness programme, community health work is important.
It addresses those parameters which determine the society’s wellbeing.