DUSHANBE, March 30, Asia-Plus — 90 percent of health of the population depends on people themselves and only 10 percent on physicians, Nusratullo Fayzulloyev, the head of Tajikistan’s National Red Crescent Society (NRCS), remarked at a conference formally titled “Improvement of Living Quality Through Community-based First Aid” in Dushanbe.
He noted a project with similar name will be launched in Tajikistan in April. According to him, the project aims to instruct population of remote areas in methods of providing first medical aid and preventing the most frequently occurring diseases and improve their disaster response skills.
Tajikistan’s National Red Crescent Society (NRCS) will implement the project under support of the European Commission and the Dutch Red Cross.
The project is expected to cover some 300 villages in Gorno Badakhshan, Khatlon, Sughd, and districts subordinate to the center (RRPs).
The conference organizers hope that the project will help resolve main problems of the healthcare and improve provision of the first medical aid at the family level.
To achieve these goals the project executors intend to provide participation of all interested sides in giving and monitoring basic first aid instruction, lay foundation for training and coordinating volunteers as well as make available to communities information about public health and skills of providing the first aid.
Dilorom Mirova, coordinator of this project, said, “We hope that some 70 percent of the targeted population will raise their knowledge of this issue and thereby the project will decrease the rate of the most frequently occurring diseases and injuries by 20 percent.”
According to her, the project provides for organization of training seminars and conferences as well as training of volunteers. She noted that the project is supposed to be finished before the end of this year.
The conference participants included representatives from the European Commission Delegation in Tajikistan, HOPE Project, centers for formation of healthy lifestyle as well as regional branches of NRCS.
The main objective of the conference was to acquaint its participants with main aspects of the project.
