HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ATTEND WORKSHOP (PAGE 39)

HEALTHCARE providers from the Jasikan and Worawora hospitals in the Jasikan District have attended a day’s workshop at Worawora.
The workshop, on the theme: “ Best practices in wound management”, was attended by about 70 participants including nurses, theatre staff, ward nurses and pharmacy staff.
The workshop sought to equip the care providers with the necessary skills and best practices in wound management.
Closing the workshop, the acting Medical Superintendent of the Worawora Government Hospital, Dr Pius Nanabanyin Mensah, said the hospital was seriously understaffed.
He said currently, there was only one medical officer and four nurses out of the required staff of 60.
According to him, the only medical officer handled about 200 outpatients daily.
Dr Mensah said infrastructure at the hospital had seen no repairs or renovation in the last 50 years.
He said to ensure that work progressed at the hospital,the management of the facility had used part of its internally generated revenue to refurbish the theatre.
Dr Mensah expressed the hope that the participants would apply what they had been taught at the workshop and ensure that their patients were healed properly within the shortest possible time.