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~.) SOLU12IONS 2'0 PR0BL21133 ESLUI;1ii''10 POML~J±I1S
Hore tr.:,.ns-ort irL'i!i.tion of sUrvioez to be
iiore ,uuit .blo
Need hospital Incro.eu man-)ow-r
Doctors should visiL - Iore tr.nsort
villagekus
- !ore fu-0ds for tr-ininLs
- Tr,:.inin. of tra.incrs
- Improve Health Educ--'.ion
- Improve "attractiveness:" of rural
c,0rCs
Improve roC.s
cMere was then alively discussion bo1;.;ecn -;e "villagers" aild the "heith
workers" about the laziness of heth officials in visitilho, villages ande thetir
poor advice. At one st a "Hclth Worker" -ave a deno str;.vto, of uh:Lt dvice
he would {;ive about the p:! vention of diarrhocaf sivin- examples of clean livin'y
o.eanhi'ousing, Gto. A iller" promptly c.ave the rood reply th.t Eo'OihC rich
people he knui, in toi-m, .'el 'adc L nice house! c. childrcn tio had diarrhoea.
'hTis lcd n'turally to a eorn-.l discussion of what
It was
advice
pointed
wLs appropri,.
out tha=t
to,
in u.nsv..erin the first question, Iost of the Lrou s had
concentr-Ated on l..ck of f~cilities, drugs ,rl trz-incd
,, feelin,,.
personnel.
amongst the
This
vilL..;ers
revr-e_:entod
and health wors th.t health problems were
only answurod by health services, As the discussiun :ot ulderway, it was quickly
found out that the knowlod-o. advice anid skills of llalth vorkers wore sorelr
inadru-at c and occassiunall ,,irrelev-nt for the existing' problems - So increasing
~ services and ierr-oiuol would .1 not necessarily an Iswer the teproblem~s, We eto
disctussed how.: we could boin to an idca of t-e intricate nAuro of tho
problems surroundinS ill halth, and how -6o ,pproich villgo lcetiersz with a
new attitude of rcseet for their kioleic and bcliefs. There uis .iuch
unhap)iness in bhe group about accept in, that weo shall a)proach villaes by
sayin-u'z:e do not know 'the answers to some problcns, and th.t ,ioseek their
a6Lvice, but eventually it seems that thc. necessity of doinL this was accc,-tede
We all reolised thitt many of our existing belicf, . ,nL( mess&.,ges ,.,ould ha ve
to be radically rovis:ed. 'o lec.rnt th,'.t villa.:ors could do a lo by therselves
if -oroporly suryorted.
6.5 RUAL PIPED ;'2FiiPROJECTS
This topic was led by 1r. lonk Van 'naikv Senior Water Engincer (aural)
for Lands, Vazluation .. n(.- Wat;r, The purpose of thc d.y-lon,; ses.,sion:, to
provide a thorou.1i brief in.., for he participannts abou; all major asnoots of the
piped vctatcr project. Hr, Van Shaik beo',-n ".with a ,,lide-sound shot,: wihich illustrated
L ,n_ key ul. :ments of the Projcct - esep-;cially those involvd wit-'h com;-,uity
part icipati,in. The following par,.r,.phs ac cxceurpt..d from a brief papcr ,.Ire
Van Shaik distribu-;,ed:­
Approxim,.Aely 750,000 pcamle arc .,m,'urntly L-'sin; ite,or from a rural ,ipod
wo.ter supply in ,-al..wi. 'tr supplies arc Jisbributou ill over .Il.u-i :ith
Chinuk-, .. tr supply in the f,;r I1orth, 1chinji in th; Central :,i~and
"[ulan,je South sup1)ly in thc SoutUh, just to mention a fow rul pipcu a'er supplies.
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