Home nursing training in East

Hathoon Sheriffdeen in Kalmunai

Home nursing training programmes are initially introduced to Eastern Province by St Judy Home Nursing Institution Sri Lanka in the beginning of this year. “We target on the development of the first aid and nursing practices of the people in the area,” Managing Director of the Institution M.M Shafras Mansoor said.

We are training the schoolchildren, teachers, INGO workers and the community workers in the area. Many records disclose that sixty per cent of the tsunami victims were buried before they were dead the reason for this is the lack of trained home nurses in the area, he said.

Skills in the first aid field should be developed in every part of the country in future. Young people in every family should be educated in home nursing to protect themselves.

Meanwhile, there is a massive demand for trained home nurses and life care personnel in the world. These professionals have a recognition for trained first aid globally. In Sri Lanka, we do not have many people who have obtained training in the field”.

“Mainly house wives and other personnel should be trained in first aid in each part of the country. We are now training the trainers of various fields in first aid in the Eastern Province. At the moment 15 trainers are obtaining training in home nursing and first aid at St. Judy Home Nursing Institution Sri Lanka to train the village society” Mansoor said.

“We are also training the workers in the area on employee safety. We are taking special care of the workers in construction, manufacturing and the service fields in the area. People in this area are very keen to learn first aid, since they had had a lot of experience with the tsunami and other disasters,” he said.

Mansoor said the St Judy Home Nursing Institution is looking for opportunities on road traffic accident management.

“We had some meetings with the road traffic police of this area and learners’ organisations.

We proposed to take steps to train all personnel wishing to obtain driving licences in the area on road traffic accident management.

The learners’ organisations are reluctant to put this idea in to practise”. “Hygiene and nutrition, environmental safety, health care, life care, fire safety and disaster management training will be considered in the future.

These training programmes will be targeted on the young villagers on a continuous basis.

We are looking forward to promote these training programmes to INGOs, hoteliers, and other community service providers of the area,” Mansoor further stated. St Judy home nursing institution will be communicating with various Government and non-government organisations to affiliate with them to stabilise the standard of the qualification of the courses conducted, Mansoor said.