Introduction
An Ancillary Health Care Worker liaises with patients, clients, visitors to hospitals and staff at health clinics, and works as a team member to arrange, coordinate and provide health care delivery in community health clinics.
After completing this course, the student will be able to carry out the following tasks:
- Advising and educating individuals, families and the community on health, nutrition, hygiene, lifestyle and other issues to maintain or improve health and well-being.
- Examining patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status and the nature of physical or mental disorders or illnesses or other ailments.
- Providing basic home based health care and treatment.
- Doing directly supervised treatment support (DOTS) and screening of Health related cards for compliance or default.
- Weighing infants and babies and recording results on health cards.
- Providing prevention of mother to child treatment (PMTCT) support at household level.
- Providing counselling, support, passionate caring, stress relief etc.
- Referring patients to, and exchanging information with, other health care providers to ensure comprehensive and continuing care.
- Advocating and marketing for the Department of Health at community level.
- Identifying areas of potential danger or hazard and reporting this to the relevant departments.
