With the rising number of patients seeking assistance for stroke and other heart complications, Wockhardt Hospital is training Malawian health workers in basic life-saving skills.

NatHingu imparting life saving skills at Malawi College for Health Sciences Blantyre Campus

The hospital has already done the free trainings at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Qech), LMJ and MASM clinics, Limbe Police Station and Kamuzu Central Hospital, Chileka and Lilongwe airports, among others.

Wockhardt international hospital group head, Somnath Shetty claimed that such sharing of knowledge and transfer of skills is always welcome and healthy in healthcare environment.

“We receive a lot of patients from Malawi and mostly the conditions could have been avoided if stroke was properly managed,” he said.

The hospital’s international business manager Heena Hingu said they target to train 700 health workers in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in the first phase and then scale it up and add more such programmes in later stage.

The health workers have much of the knowledge but we had to beef it up with what we practically do in India,” she said.

According to her, life saving skills and stroke management skills, are necessary, especially in the first five hours of an occurrence like stroke and immediate action during a cardiac arrest in the form of CPR in few scenarios.

Qech chief nursing officer Feggie Bodole described the training as crucial since life support is needed not only in hospitals but the community at large.

“It was necessary to add on to our knowledge because patients who collapse suddenly need proper assistance to avoid further damages. We also got very recent knowledge on how to resuscitate patients,” she said.

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