By GEOFFREY ANGUYO | PROJECT LEADER
63 Religious leaders and faith communities were trained to mobilize their follower to participate in wellness clinics and primary Health Care. Religious leaders and faith communities are the largest and best organized civil institution in the world. They are attached to billion of believers that brings different races social classes and nationalities more than any other civil society groups. Religious leaders have the experience of establishing and working with different patterners in primary health care setting because one of the biggest challenges faced by their followers is disease and poverty by their followers is disease and poverty .Religious leaders are often highly respected figures in their communities because community members and political leaders listen to them at the family and community levels, religious leaders can mobilize people for regular health check up such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, HIV,TB and many others.
In this particular training each religious institution was tasked with forming health teams that can coordinate with health teams to mobilize people for mobile clinics and make follow up on those that need continuous monitoring and those that need palliative care services. The health teams will receive specific training on primary healthcare similar to those that are received by the community health workers. This training will help the communities catch up with the gaps created by the COVID19 pandemic.
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