The Bureau of Health Education within the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs has received support through UNICEF to ensure continued efforts at COVID-19 infection prevention and control in communities. One component of this support entails conducting a series of training seminars with key partners in communities.
One of the targeted partners are the Home Help Caregivers. The Choiseul Caregivers were recently provided with this training. They were equipped with the knowledge and skills to properly undertake infection prevention and control measures in providing care to their elderly and home-bound clientele to ensure their duties are performed in a safe manner. Health Educator in the Bureau of Health Education Louisa Wilson says there is a need to strengthen the caregivers’ knowledge on infection prevention as to protect themselves and their clients from viruses and infections.
“The reason why we doing this training session is because we want to continue emphasizing infection prevention and control measures as it relates to COVID-19. We also want to teach our participants healthy living lifestyles and also we want to ensure that they continue living healthy lifestyles at home and also impact their community members as well as family members to teach
them about healthy lifestyles. They work with high risk groups, these are the elderly and persons with disability. As we all know these persons have underlying medical health conditions. These persons by teaching them, they can better impact the lives of these persons who are high risk.”
Wilson says it is her hope that the knowledge gained from this training will impact the lives of the caregivers and that of their clients.