Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC) in conjunction with its partner, Presbyterian Farmers’ Training and Child Development Program (PFTCDP) has organized a five day refresher training course at a total cost of about 15 million cedis for about 22 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) coming from 17 communities, in Jantong Daboagshie in the East Gonja district of the northern region.
The aim of the workshop was to upgrade the skills of the TBAs in current antenatal and post natal practice and to provide them with the necessary working accoutrements to enable them function well in their communities because they are the first point of contact for pregnant women. The participants were taken through antenatal, the delivery process, post natal, referrals, nutrition, HIV/Aids, family planning and guinea worm education.
Speaking at the closing ceremony to the 5 day training, also witnessed by the head of public healthcare in the East Gonja district, Agnes Atoguba and the Program Coordinator of the Presbyterian Farmers’ Training and Child Development Program, Eric Chimsi, the Country Director of CCFC, Sanatu Nantogma stated that “Today’s’ gathering is just one realisation of CCFC’s plan under health and nutrition”.
She said that in CCFC’s health and nutrition operating plan for 2007/8 with PFTCDP, the hope was to reduce cases of malnutrition and anemia in children from ten (10) communities and to network with communities to promote the health and nutritional status of over 1,300 school children, 250 youth and 750 adults in 10 communities through nutritional assessment and health and nutrition educational campaigns.
The Country Director added that one of the major plans in 2007/08 was to organise training on reproductive health issues, one of which was this training the TBAs had just gone through. She advised the TBAs to be very receptive of their patients and not to charge any fees when they came to utilize their services.
The head of public healthcare in the East Gonja district, Madam Agnes Atoguba on her part congratulated the TBAs for successfully going through the refresher training and informed them that reports reaching the East Gonja district health directorate showed that they were doing very well in their jobs. She told them to put the new skills learnt at the refresher training into practice to the benefit of their patients.
A 22 year old mother, Ashietu Asani was very grateful to Madam Abiba Wontogma, a TBA from Daashie for helping deliver her three month old son, Abdul Wahid Asani.
For now CCFC is sure of healthy births like Abdul Wahid in the 17 communities. Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) is an international organization which works with local partners in 12 countries around the world to improve the standards of living of over 40,000 children, their needy families and communities. In Africa, CCFC works in four countries namely Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania. It is also a member of the Child Fund Alliance that works in 55 countries of the world to implement child centred development interventions. CCFC was established in Ghana in 1996, with its country office based in Tamale.
The aim of the workshop was to upgrade the skills of the TBAs in current antenatal and post natal practice and to provide them with the necessary working accoutrements to enable them function well in their communities because they are the first point of contact for pregnant women. The participants were taken through antenatal, the delivery process, post natal, referrals, nutrition, HIV/Aids, family planning and guinea worm education.
Speaking at the closing ceremony to the 5 day training, also witnessed by the head of public healthcare in the East Gonja district, Agnes Atoguba and the Program Coordinator of the Presbyterian Farmers’ Training and Child Development Program, Eric Chimsi, the Country Director of CCFC, Sanatu Nantogma stated that “Today’s’ gathering is just one realisation of CCFC’s plan under health and nutrition”.
She said that in CCFC’s health and nutrition operating plan for 2007/8 with PFTCDP, the hope was to reduce cases of malnutrition and anemia in children from ten (10) communities and to network with communities to promote the health and nutritional status of over 1,300 school children, 250 youth and 750 adults in 10 communities through nutritional assessment and health and nutrition educational campaigns.
The Country Director added that one of the major plans in 2007/08 was to organise training on reproductive health issues, one of which was this training the TBAs had just gone through. She advised the TBAs to be very receptive of their patients and not to charge any fees when they came to utilize their services.
The head of public healthcare in the East Gonja district, Madam Agnes Atoguba on her part congratulated the TBAs for successfully going through the refresher training and informed them that reports reaching the East Gonja district health directorate showed that they were doing very well in their jobs. She told them to put the new skills learnt at the refresher training into practice to the benefit of their patients.
A 22 year old mother, Ashietu Asani was very grateful to Madam Abiba Wontogma, a TBA from Daashie for helping deliver her three month old son, Abdul Wahid Asani.
For now CCFC is sure of healthy births like Abdul Wahid in the 17 communities. Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) is an international organization which works with local partners in 12 countries around the world to improve the standards of living of over 40,000 children, their needy families and communities. In Africa, CCFC works in four countries namely Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania. It is also a member of the Child Fund Alliance that works in 55 countries of the world to implement child centred development interventions. CCFC was established in Ghana in 1996, with its country office based in Tamale.
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