Cllrs urged to help social workers in schools
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Addressing councillors yesterday, she said that while in other schools there was close cooperation with the social workers, it was non-existent with other schools.
She urged the councillors to encourage and not supervise the two stakeholders to work closely for the sake of the students in need of government aid. "There are students who take ARVs who need to have eaten first and some might be suffering after losing their parents to the disease. The social workers need to know this information and how many orphans are in the schools because the school can't have this information," she said.
The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...