Anambra to recruit over 3,000 community-based health workers

By Vincent Ujumadu

The Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ASPHCDA), successful collaboration with the State Ministry of Health (SMOH) and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has commenced the recruitment of much than 3,000 community-based wellness workers for superior healthcare centres crossed the 179 communities successful the state.

The recruitment interviews, presently taking spot astatine the Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex successful Awka, are portion of efforts to fortify entree to affordable healthcare, peculiarly successful agrarian areas.

The Executive Secretary of ASPHCDA, Mrs. Chisom Uchem, said the inaugural is simply a cardinal measurement successful government’s thrust to amended healthcare transportation astatine the grassroots by deploying qualified personnel.

She explained that the programme would assistance span the spread betwixt residents and wellness facilities, ensuring that indispensable services scope radical successful their communities. Uchem besides stressed the value of compassion and integrity successful carrying retired the responsibilities attached to the role.

“At slightest 10 wellness workers volition beryllium assigned to each of the 326 wards successful the authorities to code staffing shortages successful Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs),” she added.

Speaking astatine the event, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Uchebo Obiageli, noted that the workers would play a captious relation successful caring for the sick, guiding residents to wellness facilities, and supporting expectant mothers to execute harmless deliveries.

She emphasized that the programme is targeted astatine reducing maternal mortality, stillbirths, and different preventable deaths crossed the state.

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