Foundation Continues to give Covid-19 kits to Community Nurses in Kisumu
By Dickson Odhiambo
July 19, 2021
Foundation Continues to
give Covid-19 kits to Community Nurses in Kisumu
A Foundation has continued to offer support the Community Health
Volunteers in Kisumu East Constituency.
Mwalimu James Japheth Mwamu Foundation visited Orongo Dispensary
in Kisumu East Constituency where the Community Health Volunteers are attached
to and gave the Covid 19 kits like Face masks and sanitizers for their daily
duties.
The Foundation’s Communication Director Kate Akinyi Nyadida the Community
nurses known as Community Health Volunteers are also frontline workers during
this time of Covid-19 disease hence needs to be supported in the line of their
duty
The Foundation's President James Japheth Mwamu said there is
need by the County Government to release the stipend it pays to the Community
Health Volunteers in time to help in motivating them in their work.
A Community Health Volunteer Helida Achieng Odindo has hailed
the Foundation's gesture to visit them and donated them the items.
She says they have a lot of work within the community to help in
enlightening the public on matters of health at the grass root level.
Achieng says they need personal protective devices like gloves,
face masks among others to help them in their work.
Two weeks ago, the foundation visited the Community Health
Workers in Ragumo area within the Kisumu East Constituency and donated such
items to them.
The Foundation’s President James Mwamu had called on the County
Government of Kisumu to consider increasing the stipend given to the Community
Health Workers to enable them do their work effectively.
The Community Health Workers have lamented that the stipend they
are currently offered is too little to sustain their work.
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