BASIC TRAINING FOR BARANGAY
HEALTH WORKERS
Calasiao, Pangasinan
ROLES
of the
BARANGAY HEALTH
WORKER
You all have different reasons for being here as
Barangay Health Workers, but the most
important ones are:
1.
We know there are health problems in our
community;
2. We are committed to helping find solutions to
these problems.
As a Barangay Health Worker, you are also a:
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Community organizer;
Health educator; and
Health service provider.
The qualities of a BHW are:
3 Cs – Compassionate (kind)
- Committed
- Creative (resourceful)
2 Vs - Voluntary Spirit
-Visionary leadership
1 P - Patient
1 H - Healthy
1 T - Team Worker (Good model/approachable)
A. The Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) are trained
to serve in a barangay health station (BHS)
situated in his/her home for a specific number of
families/households under his/her coverage.
1. First and foremost, he/she must be able to give
adequate out-patient care and this includes;
- Recognize signs and symptoms of common illness.
- Recognition and referral of those needing care.
2. Secondly, he/she must be able to give adequate
assistance to the midwives and/or nurses in the care of
mothers and children in the promotion of maternal and
child health and this includes;
- Arrangements and assistance in clinics, including
preventive and curative care and immunization.
- The ability to detect and refer the at-risk mothers
and at-risk children
- Referral of obstetrical emergencies
- Ensure Birth Plan for all pregnant mothers
- Monitoring of monthly weight and other health
care needs of the children.
3. He/she must be able to advise, encourage and
initiate improvements in the environmental health at
the barangay level. This includes;
- Improvement in sanitation as well as household
and community hygiene.
- Arrange and conduct lectures on environmentalrelated illnesses.
4. He/she must be able to assist family planning
service with emphasis on activities such as;
- Provide information on the methods of FP
- Referral of all potential and new family planning
acceptors
- Follow-up defaulters.
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5. he/she must be able to;
- Provide simple nutrition information to the
community
- Identify and refer malnourished children to the
midwives
- Assist in weighing of children during
“OPERATION TIMBANG”
6. He/she must be able to give adequate assistance to
the midwives in the prevention and control of
communicable diseases prevalent in the local community.
This includes;
- Identification of common communicable diseases
prevalent in the area.
- Reporting in the occurrence of communicable
diseases.
- Referral of cases of communicable diseases.
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7. He/she must be able to administer and manage
activities as BHW at the BHS and this includes;
- Care and safe keeping of drug supply and
medical equipments.
- Programming of their activities
- Delineation of principal duties, task and
targets
- Good public relation and work as a team
with BHS and RHU personnel
B. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is
trained clinically in different aspects of health
care.
The BHW must be able to:
 recognized situations requiring referral
 Recognized all common medical condition
including the common communicable diseases.
 Treat all common medical
 Assist the midwife in diseases investigations
C. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is
trained to initiate, organize, supervised and
conduct activities for preventive medicines
such as;
 pre-natal care
 post-natal care
 child health care
 immunization campaigns
 nutrition rehabilitation
 health education in schools and other places
 surveys
D. The BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER, in
order to fulfill both clinical and community
aspects of his/her work at the health center,
he/she must be able to perform administrative
function, such as;
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- Assist and conduct surveys.
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- Keep records
- Perform monitoring and reporting
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- Maintain good relations with the public
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The role of a BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER is
a difficult one. It entails a lot of sacrifices to
oneself and his/her family… but the
contentment of helping those in need and the
gratitude extended to a BHW for his/her care
and support to his/her community are more
than enough to cover for the efforts and time
spent as a …
BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER.
God bless everyone!