Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
The Globe Village Healthcare Initiative for Africa (GHIA) has trained 30 youths in the healthcare delivery services in Borno state.
The training of youths was to improve healthcare delivery in the13-year humanitarian crisis in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
GHIA Executive Director, Mulikat Bamidele, yesterday (Monday), in Maiduguri, stated that the youths are trained on mental health, psychological support and child protection.
According to her, the healthcare delivery services are to be provided to rural communities affected by the over a decade insurgency.
“This necessitated us to train the youths to enhance their capacity of healthcare delivery services to the people,” he said.
She said that the course was to strengthen the competencies of participants from humanitarian and development actors working in emergencies of affected states.
He added that the actors are to establish, support and scale up mental health and psychological support services in communities.
”The focus of this training is on how to apply existing practical, evidence-based interventions,” she said, as well as scalable tools and practice-led approaches to scale up mental health and psychological support in emergency operations.
According to her, the health workers are also to identify and support populations in distress.
“They are also to advocate integrating Mental Health and Psychological Support (MHPSS) in different sectors of humanitarian emergencies.
Besides, she added that child protection had the potential to transform the quality and the rigours of humanitarian and development assistances.
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