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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

HEALTH OFICERS CAPACITY BUILDING IN TURKANA COUNTY ON EMERGENCY CASES ON 17.01.2014



Health workers from 7 sub-counties in Turkana County finished their one week training at Sasame guest house in Lodwar Town on early preparedness on Emergencies. Speaking during the training the In charge of Ambulance Mrs Susan Otieno said that health Officers who heads all health centers and Hospitals in the entire Turkana county were being trained on how to deal with Emergencies in the county. However she said that in Turkana County there are many Emergency cases such as Raids, floods drought and many other accidents that occurs every now and then. She therefore added that the health officers will Extend the training to the citizen because the citizen are the first people to encounters Incidents before the health workers so they should receive information to help the victims before they are taken to hospital. The programme was funded by UNICEF through Merlin who always supports venerable people in the community and collaborated by National Government and also county government.

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