Training of health personnel in Sierra Leone for primary health care

ABSTRACT

Sierra Leone; like many African countries; has experienced considerable delay in implementing programmes geared towards the achievement of health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care. There is widespread dissatisfaction towards health care delivery not only as a result of inadequate financing but also due to the general incompetence of health personnel to meet new challenges. A primary health care policy calls for the the training of health personnel of all types and in numbers to meet the needs of the entire country. Training is thus regarded as a priority intervention to meet these challenge. A guideline to relate education and training innovations to the elements of primary care is presented