PHOTO: Participants at the just-ended case management workshop
By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
GBARNGA, Liberia-The Bong County Health Team under the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program (NLTCP) has ended a five-day case management scale-up training for health workers in the central city of Gbarnga.
The training targeted clinicians who are serving at the various health facilities to increase TB case notification rate.
The training,, which was recently held in this city, brought together health workers from 15 health facilities in Nimba, Bong and Grand Bassa Counties
At the end of the five days training, Benjamin K. Quenneh, Case Management Coordinator of NLTCP, challenged the health workers to go back in their respective work areas and wage war against Tuberculosis.
TB, he said, is a serious health issue that needs the collective efforts of all Liberians.
“Today you’re going home after spending five whole days in Gbarnga learning new things, please don’t leave here and forget to practicalize that which you have learned.
“We will be checking on you; you were told that in order to eliminate TB in Liberia it depends squarely on us all, especially you clinicians,”Mr. Quenneh.
Also speaking, Bong County Health Officer, Dr. Jonathan Flomo, said the provision of quality healthcare service delivery remains a paramount concern of the Ministry of Health (MOH), despite the outbreak of the coronavirus.
He said the Ministry’s commitment to the health need of Liberians cannot be over emphasized especially in the fight against TB.
According to him, the issue of TB is a priority to the Health Ministry and partners.
He said that the County Health Team have had so many engagement with partners in finding practical solutions and some of these partners currently working with the county health team in order to end TB in Liberia by 2030.
“Since Monday to today you have been here refreshing your brain so from now on, we expect that you will be able to cater to people suffering from TB and provide the right data and most importantly, understands the symptoms as you embarked on this new journey. Go and serve your country,” Dr. Flomo said.
Some of the participants who spoke with LocalVoicesLiberia said they were glad to have formed part of such an amazing initiative.
They then promised to use the knowledge acquired from the weeklong training to end TB in the country.