The department of health services in Nyamira County is conducting a 10-day retooling training to its Community Health Promoters (CHPs) to enhance their basic health service delivery within their communities.
The County director for primary health services, John Kimani while officially opening the training pointed out that CHPs are the first and critical health service providers in the health care service chain and should therefore be adequately informed because they play a crucial role in saving lives. "CHPs interact directly and regularly with members of their households and communities and are best positioned to know the health status of their community members before they access our health facilities for medication.
The department of health services therefore saw the need to organize this training to retool them on basic health care skills to be able to manage offering prompt basic health care service and relay reliable health related information to us from their communities," Kimani stated.
He clarified that the initial strategy when community health service was introduced was in the spirit of volunteering.
