Bana: Community Based Health Care

I apologize for the delay in posting the rest of the Bana Adventures.   It has been a busy time, but let the story continue!

Mathew and Bapo meeting with community leaders at Bana.

Matthew Galman is the director of Community Based Health Care, he along with fellow worker, Bapo Ipo, were busy meeting with community leaders during our four days at Bana.   When not busy, talking with community leaders, they were out visiting local villages near by seeing how CBHC could help through practical ways, to teach and train in basic health care from a preventative perspective.    Matthew said, “We made friends with community, listened to their stories of health needs, gave out survey forms, introduced CBHC to them and made an appointment for a week long community training.”   CBHC is vital in helping to prevent some of the basic sickness in these remote villages. They not only teach about simple and basic health care they also train leaders who then go and teach and train the people of their villages.   

Community leaders.

“The people whom we met over a period of 5 days are really good people. They are crying out for services. They lack basic vital services like health and education.”  With eyes looking ahead, Matthew stated, “Nazarene Community Based Health Care now has the challenge to mobilize and train the entire community to prevent preventable illnesses. Community leaders have been motivated and are looking forward to that before the end of 2015.”   Gabriel Mahisu also echoed these thoughts, “However, all councillors had pledged their support of the program and want to commit themselves to the training in October this year. They begged Mathew and Bapo to go there quickly because they do not want to miss out on the opportunity and really wanted to push for it into their communities.”

 

Author: The Bana Team   Pics by Jeff