Kiambu County’s health department will use Thika Level Five Hospital’s facilities to train more community health workers.
This is to allegedly help improve the levels of hygiene in the grassroots according to the facility’s superintendent Dr Andrew Toro.
Toro said that they have set all strategies towards the training of the workers who will assist in discharging health services in the grassroots including the fight against malaria and midwifery among others.
He revealed that there have been several cases of women being brought to the hospital in critical condition after giving birth at home and bleeding without attention and in most cases the CHWs have been helping them.
Toro added that they will be used to reach residents at their homes and sensitise them on the importance of maintaining good health and how to protect them from diseases.
He called on the health chief officer Dr Stephen Njuguna to ensure he supports the programme as it will help improve the health sector in Kiambu.
Toro was speaking this morning from the hospital when the hospital celebrated the first successful dialysis.