Advisor to the President on Health and Medical Affairs, Prof. Mohamed Janabi has made a one-day business visit to see for himself the implementation of Health Services at the Community Level in the Coastal Region.
During the visit yesterday, Prof. Janabi visited the training colleges for Community Health Workers (CHW) as well as the ‘Mendapole’ Clinic in Kibaha Town Council, Coast region to see for himself how these workers provide services to the community.
Speaking during the visit, Prof. Janabi, who is also the Executive Director of Taifa Muhimbili Hospital, said the visit was aimed at seeing the implementation of the Health Services Program at the Community Level as well as encouraging the staff for the great work they are doing.
He emphasized that the Government recognizes the importance of improving health starting at the primary level in order to achieve the goals of having a healthy nation
Prof. Janabi said the Government of the Sixth Phase, in addition to continuing to improve health care services, has also made efforts to strengthen and improve health services from the primary level, and thus has a sincere goal to ensure that this program grows sustainably.
He said that by the year 2028, there will be a total of 137,294 Community Level Health Workers who will be at work throughout the country.
He said that through this program, if you are able to provide education to the people, you will greatly help the community to avoid contracting various diseases, including infectious and non-infectious ones. Likewise, we will achieve the goal of reducing maternal mortality, as no mother should die from pregnancy because pregnancy is not a disease.
Prof. Janabi has used the opportunity to encourage the community this Christmas and New Year season to observe road safety laws to avoid accidents that can cause death and disability and reduce the national workforce.
The National Coordinator of the Community Level Health Services Program through the Ministry of Health, Dr. Norman Jonas has said that this program is the country’s strategy to strengthen health services at the community level and aims to have two health workers (male and female) for each street or neighborhood to ensure that health services reach all citizens.
