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ROLES of the
BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER
BASIC TRAINING FOR BARANGAY HEALTH WORKERS
Calasiao, Pangasinan
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You all have different reasons for being here as Barangay Health Workers, but the most important ones are:
1. We know there are health problems in our community;
2. We are committed to helping find solutions to these problems.
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As a Barangay Health Worker, you are also a:
1. Community organizer;2. Health educator; and3. Health service provider.
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The qualities of a BHW are:
3 Cs – Compassionate (kind) - Committed - Creative (resourceful)
2 Vs - Voluntary Spirit -Visionary leadership
1 P - Patient1 H - Healthy1 T - Team Worker (Good model/approachable)
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A. The Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) are trained to serve in a barangay health station (BHS) situated in his/her home for a specific number of families/households under his/her coverage.
1. First and foremost, he/she must be able to give adequate out-patient care and this includes;
- Recognize signs and symptoms of common illness.
- Recognition and referral of those needing care.
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2. Secondly, he/she must be able to give adequate assistance to the midwives and/or nurses in the care of mothers and children in the promotion of maternal and child health and this includes;
- Arrangements and assistance in clinics, including preventive and curative care and immunization.
- The ability to detect and refer the at-risk mothers and at-risk children
- Referral of obstetrical emergencies- Ensure Birth Plan for all pregnant mothers
- Monitoring of monthly weight and other health care needs of the children.
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3. He/she must be able to advise, encourage and initiate improvements in the environmental health at the barangay level. This includes;
- Improvement in sanitation as well as household and community hygiene.
- Arrange and conduct lectures on environmental-related illnesses.
4. He/she must be able to assist family planning service with emphasis on activities such as;
- Provide information on the methods of FP- Referral of all potential and new family planning
acceptors- Follow-up defaulters.
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5. he/she must be able to;- Provide simple nutrition information to the
community - Identify and refer malnourished children to
the midwives - Assist in weighing of children during
“OPERATION TIMBANG” 6. He/she must be able to give adequate
assistance to the midwives in the prevention and control of communicable diseases prevalent in the local community. This includes;
- Identification of common communicable diseases prevalent in the area.
- Reporting in the occurrence of communicable diseases.
- Referral of cases of communicable diseases.
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7. He/she must be able to administer and manage activities as BHW at the BHS and this includes;
- Care and safe keeping of drug supply and medical equipments.
- Programming of their activities - Delineation of principal duties,
task and targets - Good public relation and work as
a team with BHS and RHU personnel
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B. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is trained clinically in different aspects of health care.The BHW must be able to:
recognized situations requiring referral Recognized all common medical condition
including the common communicable diseases.
Treat all common medical Assist the midwife in diseases investigations
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C. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is trained to initiate, organize, supervised and conduct activities for preventive medicines such as;
pre-natal care post-natal care child health care immunization campaigns nutrition rehabilitation health education in schools and other places surveys
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D. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER, in order to fulfill both clinical and community aspects of his/her work at the health center, he/she must be able to perform administrative function, such as;
- Assist and conduct surveys. - Keep records - Perform monitoring and reporting - Maintain good relations with the public
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The role of a BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is a difficult one. It entails a lot of sacrifices to oneself and his/her family… but the contentment of helping those in need and the gratitude extended to a BHW for his/her care and support to his/her community are more than enough to cover for the efforts and time spent as a …
BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER.
God bless everyone!