Mr Nanbol Daniel, member representing Langtang North Central Constituency in the Plateau House of Assembly,has organised a training for healthcare workers in his constituency on how to cope with Coronavirus (COVID-19) challenges.
In a statement signed by Mr Miri Nyantau, the Legislative Aide to the lawmaker, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday, the lawmaker said that the training, which was to avail healthcare workers at the local level with in-dept understanding of the dreaded COVID-19 was held in Langtang.
According to Daniel, who is also the House Committee Chairman on Health, the training was to forestall eventual community transmission.
“The training is to enlighten health workers on how to ethically communicate with the community in order to prevent community transmission.
“To give them better understanding of the challenges of contact tracing and techniques to be in identifying the contacts,”he said.
He stated that the training which was organised in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Centre, Langtang North, was to ensure that the area had a healthy population.
Daniel said a healthy population would contribute to the development of not just Tarok Nation, but Plateau and Nigeria.“Additionally, the health workers would be equipped with the knowledge, attitude and practice in response to COVID-19 pandemic.
“The training assessed how prepared health workers in Langtang North are to respond to myths and facts about COVID-19.
“Their competency, consistency, confidence to response to COVID-19 was equally assessed.“Preventive messages were dished out for front line healthcare workers and the public and they were also drilled on the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and demonstration of donning and doffing of PPE,”he said.
Mrs Hajara Datol, Director of the Primary Health Care, Langtang North, charged the participants to replicate the knowledge gained at their various work stations.
Datol stated that doing so would educate other staff who were not part of the training.According to her, the training was a vital one as it would help healthcare workers at the frontline of the fight against Covid-19.
She added that the healthcare workers should endeavour to develop strategy for community engagement in their various wards.
Mr Sargwak Yildom of Primary Health Centre Reak, on behalf of other participants thanked the legislator for imparting the needful knowledge in them.
Yildom said that the training was timely and useful in view of the current realities in the country. (NAN)
