Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Box 1.3.2: Relationship between Volunteers and CHOs
1. They report health issues and diseases to the CHO
2. Help collect, collate and submit community data to CHO
3. Plan awareness creation programmes with CHO
4. Help CHO with first aid treatment of sick people
5. Help organise Child welfare clinics
VHC
MOH/GH
DHMT
SDHMT
CHO
CHV
Interpersonal Relationships
Fig. 1.3.5: Organizational chart showing the relationships and
Figure reporting 1.3.3: system Organisational in the health chart showing delivery the system relationships in Ghanaand
reporting system in the health delivery system in Ghana
From the diagram, who does the CHO relate to? She/he relates to the sub-district health
team, VHC and CHV. The CHO refers cases and reports all technical issues to the subdistrict.
These include referral cases, receiving and returning data collection charts.
The sub-district health management team (SDHMT) also supervises and trains the CHO.
They ensure that the CHO is doing her work well. They are in turn supervised by the
Sub-District Health Management Team. Both groups are made up of a number of health
workers. These procedures are all called reporting or supervisory relationships.
To relate effectively with all our stakeholders and work with them we need to develop some
interpersonal skills to make us good communicators. We will discuss this in the next section.
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