The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Wassa East Chapter, has adjudged, Mr. Nicholas Paa Kwasi Turkson because the nice Community Nurse in Wassa East District.
Mr. Turkson who became published to the District and finally assigned to the Domama CHIP Compound withinside the Ekutase Electoral Area is the primary nurse to shape Adolescent Health Club withinside the District, which has helped in lowering teenage being pregnant in the catchment area. He additionally created Reproductive Child Health (RCH) unit on the facility to make certain privateness and confidentiality.
Again, Mr. Turkson rewards moms who whole their Child Welfare Clinic Schedule with the aid of using establishing a celebration on the cease of every yr to encourage different moms.
Presenting the award on the mid-yr Performance Review Meeting for 2022, with the aid of using the Wassa East District Health Directorate at Daboase withinside the Western Region, the District Director of Health, Mr. Emmanuel Affelkum, stated the District takes satisfaction in fitness practitioners who discover modern approaches in addressing fitness transport demanding situations.
On the mid-yr overview, Mr. Affelkum stated, the overview might come up with the money for the Directorate the possibility to take inventory with the aid of using assessing their overall performance primarily based totally at the goal set for the yr in addition to cope with demanding situations and forge beforehand closer to the goal.
He stated the signs base at the deliberate sports reviewed thus far offers a clean photograph of labor closer to the set goal in all of the provider regions and entreated all provider carriers to re-awareness to make certain that the goal is achieved , stressing that this may be accompanied with the aid of using periodic sub-district opinions in addition to validation and tracking help visits.
Touching at the demanding situations raised withinside the displays, the Health Director stated, regardless of the demanding situations and constraints, the Directorate has been capable of gain barely above the common overall performance for the mid-yr. He recounted that a number of the demanding situations move past the cappotential of the Directorate. He noted accessibility, issue in travelling, and unavailability of cars amongst others as a number of the constraints.
He became brief to feature that different neighborhood way including motorbikes, tricycles are used to manage fitness offerings withinside the remotest a part of the District.
Answering questions about the lately located monkeypox and Marburg virus, Mr. Affelkum inspire the general public to bear in mind of any fitness situations which can be said in the network with the aid of using reporting to the nearest fitness facility, “in which there aren't anyt any facility, the record need to be made to the network fitness surveillance volunteers who will intend record to a facility for the vital steps to be taken to lessen any shape of an outbreak."
There had been displays on enhancing facts collection, dealing with referrals, and enhancing reproductive and maternal fitness. The relaxation are sickness manage with emphasis on covid-19 and stopping iron deficiency anaemia, code of behavior and maternal fitness issues.