Health’s helping hands praised

By PISAI GUMAR
MOROBE health adviser Micah Yawing has thanked people in remote areas who are providing health services.
Yawing said village health aid attendants had been trained to perform basic roles such as treating common illnesses in remote villages.
Similarly, trained village birth attendants take care of women during child birth.
“The arrangement for them is to safeguard the health of people in far-flung villages inaccessible to health facilities,” Yawing said.
They get their medical supplies from nearby health centres.
He said health aid officers refer seriously sick people to health centres for proper diagnosis and treatment.
Birth attendants likewise refer women with birth complications to the centres too.
Yawing thanked health aid officer Philip Aura, from Bakeri, who had assisted Bulolo nursing officers Geame Gaugung, Tobias Werip and Elizah Steven treat people who were sick during the recent malaria outbreak in Bia-Waria.
“The Waria LLG and Bulolo district can make arrangements with the Braun School of Nursing in Finschhafen to secure a space for Aura to undergo further training, and return home to continue serving his people.”