Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence says that the Ministry’s Community Health Worker (CHW) programme allows the administration to tap into the human resources from within the respective communities.
She was addressing the graduation ceremony for 25 CHWs on Saturday at the Amerindian Residence in Lethem, Region Nine. The Department of Public Information said that the graduates, from the villages in the five sub-districts in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo area, completed six months of training focused largely on maternal and child health.