HOPE Cape Town Distributes Samsung Tablets to Community Health Workers
As part of their ongoing development and training, HOPE Cape Town recently distributed brand new Samsung Galaxy tablets to its 24 Community Health Workers.
The tablets have been pre-loaded with useful data, including illustrated presentations and videos for patient education, recent and relevant TB and HIV related guidelines, various tools for counseling and disclosure, a wide range of reading materials, useful contact numbers, illustrated human anatomy charts and copies of training material. This data will be updated regularly and whenever the community health workers attend monthly training, new information will automatically upload to their tablets. The tablets will be fantastic tools for the community health workers in their clinics and communities, as they interact with and educate patients.
According to HOPE Cape Town Donor Relations Manager, “The better equipped our Community Health Workers, the better the service they render to the community. As far as we know, our Community Health Workers are the first in South Africa to make use of tablet technology for teaching and learning at grass-roots level. We thank the German Consulate in Cape Town for so generously supporting our blended learning programme and our training coordinator Dr. Sue Purchase for ensuring effective technology based learning programmes are implemented.”
