The strategy aims to motivate community health workers, improve access to primary healthcare, and promote preventive, curative and rehabilitative services. It will be implemented by the village health teams and community health workers.
The
Ministry of Health has unveiled a National Community Health Strategy to
empower communities to improve their health and promote development.
The strategy aims to motivate community health workers, improve access
to primary healthcare, and promote preventive, curative and rehabilitative
services. It will be implemented by the village health teams and community
health workers.
Brenda
Nakanwagi, the Senior Program Officer of Community Health says that the
strategy will be incorporated with the Parish Development Model so that the
services reach everyone at the grassroots. She added that they want to bring the region to speed in the areas of community
health and people’s livelihoods through the provision of basic health services.
According to Nakanwagi, the Ministry of Health is shifting from a curative to
a preventive approach by empowering communities to take control of their
health. She added that they are working with different leaders to ensure that they help
in guiding and analyzing health conditions.
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Andrew
Mubangizi, the acting Commissioner for Community Health said that the
program implementation will start with the Karamoja sub-region before it is rolled
out to the entire country. Mubangizi
noted that all partners who wish to work for the Ministry of Health shall coordinate with the Moroto Regional Referral Hospital.
Mubangizi
is optimistic that the strategy will promote the last mile on community-level
health interventions and enhance disease prevention.
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Meanwhile,
Moroto Regional Referral Hospital Director Dr Stephen Pande explained that
they are moving from a situation where health workers wait for
patients to fall sick and have now adopted a community health system to engage the communities on how to prevent
diseases.
Pande
noted the health facilities are overwhelmed by cases of malaria, and brucellosis
among others which could have been managed by sensitizing people on how to avoid
such diseases.
