December 18, 2023
Good health of the people needs to be maintained that they shall not get sick when disasters occur, or when they get sick, they need to have proper health care which many cannot afford to have due to financial constraints, so that there is also the need to empower the community in terms of primary health care and first aid.
Thus, basic health skills trainings for members of the health committee of the four women’s associations were conducted in December 2023, for Sitio Lawis and Sitio Tierra Dulce on December 15 – 17, 2023, and Sitio Nangka Ville and Sitio Wang Yu on December 8 – 10, 2023. In each of the two trainings lasting for three days per training and participated in by two associations, the community health workers (CHW) were trained on the prevention of illness, promotion of health and selective curative care, that is, on primary health care in the community level.
Topics included the Philippine health care system, orientation on community-based health program (CBHP), home remedies for common illnesses using water therapy, first aid, control of acute respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases among children, hypertension and diabetes.
Planning for the health activities in the communities was done in the last day of the training. They consisted of the conduct of blood pressure taking for hypertension screening and monitoring, health education on common illnesses and their home remedies, herbal medicine making, cupping therapy, and home visitations by the trained CHWs of sick children with cough and diarrhea. The health skills training ended with the distribution of health kits consisting of sphygmomanometers, stethoscopes, weighing scales, thermometers, essential medicines, first aid supplies and other basic health supplies.
