Ministry calls for more bicycles given to health workers to save rural lives
KAMPALA: Through enabling community health workers (CHEWS) with bicycles, more rural lives could be saved, Dr Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary at the ministry of health has said. Atwine said the government had already trained at least 3,000 CHEWS countrywide, with only 331 in Mayuge and Lira in possession of bicycles donated by World Bicycle Relief and Buffalo Bicycle. “The bicycle is more relevant now because we are talking about integration of services. So that when the CHEW goes to a household, she does not just talk about HIV and adherence to ARVs, but she is talking about the whole continuum of care,” Atwine said. “If she finds a pregnant woman, we want to know whether that woman has received malaria prevention therapy, chemo-prophylactic treatment, has attended antenatal care.” She said the bicycles would be more important “because when you […]