1.6.3  Implementing interventions at Health Post level

At the Health Post, the Health Extension Workers provide antenatal care, conduct normal and safe deliveries, administer vaccines, conduct growth monitoring, provide nutrition counselling, offer family planning services, and organise referrals for services to the general population of the kebele (Figure 1.7).

Figure 1.7  Many different types of health work goes on at each Health Post. (Photo: UNICEF/Indrias Getachew)

  • Suppose you have planned to undertake a TB eradication campaign within your community. Which of the three Health Post level approaches do you think you should follow to achieve the desired outcome of your plan? Describe the approach you have selected to follow.

  • Your plan will certainly need the involvement of many people and several other stakeholders–therefore, you should follow the community package approach. This approach allows you to involve the community in all the different stages. Of course a TB eradication campaign will involve all the Model Families in your kebele, but the entire community needs to be involved and therefore the community package approach should be used.

1.6.2 Implementing the community package

1.7  Development of the Health Service Extension Programme