By Abimbola Joseph
CITIZENS COMPASS –Mrs Honfor Adesola, Director Health Education and Promotion Services, Lagos State Primary Health Care Board (LAGPHCB), on Wednesday urged health educators to embrace capacity building for career development.
She made the appeal in an interview with the Citizens Compass shortly after a two-day capacity building for health educators in Lagos.
She said that regular capacity building would bring a lot of changes to the ways things are done and enhance efficient service delivery.
“Capacity building is a continuous process because we cannot stop learning.
“We have to keep learning, especially, in the health sector, sometimes we have a lot of changes in the way things are done.
“If there is no capacity building, there is no way we can learn the correct way of doing things to be on same page with global best practices,” she said.
According to her, capacity building has impacted positively on health educators, especially for the newly recruited, as most of the thing done on the field are different from what they were taught in school.
“Training and retraining are essential to make people more equipped after their orientation and other activities.
“They will be taught the practical way of doing things aside from what they learnt in school,” she said.
Adesola added that capacity building for health educators had improved the strategies used for advocacy communication and social prevention activities, due to slight differences from the way things are done in the past.
She said that the training had yielded good results, adding that there were lots of improvements among health educators on how to deliver and disseminate information, concerning prevalent health challenges, immunisation and other health education.
