PHM-Exch> Lay or community health workers can improve the health of children (2)

[Claudio Schuftan]

from: massimo serventi ser20 at hotmail.it


Lay health workers (LHW) should ideally be supported by the community. The
past history teaches us something else: communities do not support them,
once the NGO or the Government withdraw and/or incentives wither.
WHO is now re-encouraging LHW, in the frame of reviving PHC. However nobody
in WHO or other institutions of 'experts' produces a *single* experience of
*l*ocal community sustaining its own LHW, on a *long term* , with mutual
satisfaction.
A true,single experience,please.

Massimo Serventi
Paediatrician
30 years of work in Africa
Khartoum
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