Monrovia – Foreign Minister, Marjon Kamara, has described as a milestone the launch of the National Community Health Assistant Program.
The program created by the Ministry of Health, will give rural communities access to live-saving services and further empower them to mitigate potential health risks.
Minister Kamara expressed delight over the NCHAP and said it was a clear demonstration by the Health Ministry to further advance the government’s decentralization program.
Speaking Sunday when she proxy for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the launch of the Community Health Assistant Program in Marshall City, minister Kamara also thanked the partners for the support and pleaded for more combined effort to sustain the NCHAP.
The Liberia’s Foreign Minister recalled that often programs of such are crafted and launched, but sustainability becomes major problems.
For her part, Health Minister, Dr. Bernice Dahn expressed the joy that the newly launch National Community Health assistant program will transition the country’s Community Health System from a series of fragmented, under-performing community health volunteers program to a nationally unified high quality one.
Minister Dahn promised that Community Health Assistants will provide an integrated package of essential primary health services tailored to the greatest risks faced by rural Communities.
She said by 2020, the government’s National community Health assistant Programs will deploy more than four thousand CHAS to increase access to care for more than US$1.2 million Liberians.
The launch of the NCHAP also coincided with the dedication of a newly constructed Triage at the Marshall Health Center.