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Health Extension Worker's Training

The curriculum for the training that we give to Health Officers, Nurses, Health Extension Workers and Traditional Birth Attendants to enable them to identify fistula patients and to raise community awareness about the causes of fistula is as follows:

1. Care of pregnant woman
   • Signs and symptoms of normal pregnancy
   • Health education for pregnant women
   • Identification and care of high risk mothers
   • Danger signs and symptoms during pregnancy and their management
2. Obstructed labour
   • Definition
   • Causes and factors
   • Signs and symptoms
   • Complications
   • Management
3. Obstetric Fistula
   • Definition
   • Cause
   • Signs and symptoms
   • Care of fistula patient at home before treatment
   • Care of fistula patient after treatment
   • Prevention
4. Harmful Traditional Practices on young girls and their consequences on health of young girls
   • Types
   • Immediate and long term complications; the effect on the health of women
   • Methods of community mobilization