Anambra State Government is currently training Community Health Extension Workers and Nurses on Modified Life Saving Skills in Awka.
The exercise which will be in three batches drew participants from the twenty-one local government areas of the state, while reasonable number of the participants came from flood prone local governments areas.
The training for the first batch commenced on second July and will end on the sixteenth July, 2023, while second batch will commence from sixteenth July and terminates on the twenty eight July, and the third batch which will be training of the trainers will commence later.
Addressing the participants, the Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike who said that Governor Chukwuma Soludo is very passionate about the improvement of the state’s health care system, described the training as very crucial and strategic to the Anambra state government as government wants to reduce maternal mortality to the lowest level.
Dr. Obidike who urged the participants to take the training seriously noted that the state has enough manpower to even eliminate the maternal mortality and appealed to the trainees to learn everything they could, including how to manage high risks pregnancies, such a sickle cell carrier that is pregnant among others, even as he commended development partners like the United Nations Children’s Fund and World Health Organization for supporting the state.
One of the trainers who is a Professor of Reproductive Health from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Bryan Addimma, said that the training is to teach all categories of health workers otherwise called skilled birth attendants on what they need to know as regards to their jobs, as well as build their capacity for them to be able to refer cases that they cannot handle, and commended the Anambra state government for prioritizing capacity building in its health system to have improved health care delivery.
The Anambra State Reproductive Health Coordinator, Dr. Uju Okoye told the ABS that the training is part of Mrs. Nonye Soludo’s three years strategic initiative in eradicating maternal and neonatal mortality in the state and revealed that maternal mortality rate in the state is two hundred and eighty-one deaths per hundred thousand births, which is one of the best as the rate at the national level is five hundred and twelve deaths per one hundred thousand births.
One of the participants, Mrs. Joy Azubuike who is Community Health Officer assured that she will use the knowledge garnered at the event to improve her skills and equally transfer the skills to her colleagues.
The practical display of knowledge garnered by the participants during technical session formed the highlight of the training.
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