Training for Community Health Workers

Running head: TRAINING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
Training for Community Health Workers
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TRAINING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS1
Characteristics of trainees, job/role description
The trainees of the training activities are the community care nurses and associated
community care health workers who serves in the Western States of India such as West-
Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram and others.
The job role of the trainees can be segregated into two categories namely the community
healthcare nurses and the community care associated health workers. All the included
trainees are directly involved with healthcare service providing through medical and non-
medical work procedure. These associated health worker are the compounder, medicinal
stock supervisors, and non-medical support workers. The responsibility of the nurses are to
inspect the patients of the locality by visiting their houses or from their healthcare clinics.
After diagnosis, in case of primary health issues they provide required medical and clinical
interventions. The midwives are the support and assistant workers with the nurses. The
responsibility of compounders is to collect blood and other clinical specimens for testing or
delivering medicine to the consumer. The responsibility of medicine stock supervisors is to
supervise the medicine and other clinical goods stocks while executing quality assurance.
Organization and community description
The training operations include the health workers of different NGO (Non-Government
Organisation) foundations, profitable and international level non profitable organisations
(such as Red Cross). The community services of eastern India are mainly distributed across
the semi-urban and rural areas of West-Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram and other
states. Among these rural areas more than 95% of the population belong to below than
poverty line (Antony, 2014). Almost 70% deaths in these areas are caused by the
communicable diseases and vector bourn infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS,