Health personnel, volunteers undergo training on Ebola, cholera
A combination of 60 community healthcare personnel and volunteers have undergone training in identifying and preventing the Ebola and cholera diseases.
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The training programme took place at Adenta and Madina in Accra.
The participants comprised 40 Community Health Volunteers from 10 Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds in Adenta and 10 Community Health Surveillance Volunteers from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in Madina.
The training programme was organised by Hope For Future Generation (HFFG), a non-governmental organisation. The course was targeted at introducing the trainees to the fundamentals of care for victims of the Ebola disease and treatment that was offered. They were also taken through the processes of treatment for cholera and malaria.
Six months’ project
The training was part of a programme on Ebola and cholera organised by the HFFG and other groups with support from UKAID. The programme will run for six months.
Community healthcare personnel and volunteers were taught to be on heightened alert for people with Ebola and cholera in their communities.
The Adenta Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr Justice Hoffman, took the trainees through the stages of development of the Ebola disease and urged health personnel to be vigilant in their work.
According to him, the Adenta municipality has been identified as a potential for Ebola attack due to the high number of foreigners from the Ebola-affected countries who reside there. Under the circumstances, he said, the health service was on the lookout for persons who come into the country from the Ebola-affected nations.
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He urged community health personnel to be on the lookout for people who present themselves to hospitals with fever.
Dr Hoffman said the municipal directorate was going to train its health personnel on communicable diseases this year as part of plans to keep them abreast with the modes of transmission and spread of the diseases.
The HFFG Project Officer for Adenta, Ms Regina Boakye, said the trainees were also taken through contact tracing and identifying signs and symptoms of the diseases and their preventive methods.
In Madina, Dr Priscilla Anima Siaw, the Madina Municipal Director of Health Services, facilitated the training programme.
The HFFG Project Officer, Mr Ebenezer Allotey, said a programme to sensitise members of the community, especially drivers and market women, to the diseases would be held at lorry parks and market centres.
Mr Allotey also said the organisation was on a house-to-house campaign and intended to offer training on the diseases for identifiable organised groups.
Writer's email-rebecca.quaicoe-duho@graphic.com.gh