According to the Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria, Anambra State Community Health workers have been adjudged second best in Nigeria’s professional ethical and modern practices.
Speaking on the theme of the event “Strengthening Nigeria Healthcare system: the role of community health”, the Registrar of the board, Dr. Bashir Idris who spoke through the Deputy Director, Research and Development Community Health Institute, Abuja, Dr. Johanna Wamanyi at the commencement of a five-day mandatory continuous professional development programme for Anambra community health workers in Awka, organised by the Community Health Institute, charged the health workers to carry themselves as skilled bed attendants who are responsible for caring for the health needs of over seventy percent of citizens.
In her remarks, the Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Health Development Agency, Pharmacist Chisom Uchem said that the mandatory training is critical in this time of technological shift in health services provision and acknowledged that the huge successes recorded in primary healthcare centres are indications of Governor Soludo’s priority for the needs and welfare of health workers.
On her part, the state Chairperson, Association of Community Health Practitioners of Nigeria, Mrs. Chinyere Edeh said the skills and knowledge passed down at the training will be impacted on over one thousand community health workers through cascaded workshops at local government areas.
