First Batch Training on Cold Chain Maintenance for the Health Assistants in Lower Kheng

A two-day Training (first batch) on Cold Chain Maintenance for the Health Assistants in Lower Kheng was conducted at Goshing ECCD Center from 18th – 19th April 2022. A total of only six participants (one HA each from few of the PHCs and Sub-posts and one HA each from Panbang hospital falling under Lower Kheng attended the training program. Mr. Thinley Tobgyal (ADHO), Dzongkhag Health Sector and Mr. Yeshi Wangdi (HA), Yebilaptsa Hospital resourced the training program.

It was organized by Dzongkhag Health Sector in collaboration with Vaccines Preventable Diseases Program under the Department of Public Health, MoH with financial support from UNICEF.

VPDP program is one of the oldest programs in the Ministry of Health and vaccination program in the country is in place since the 1970s. With this training, the vaccination program is expected to bring to a greater height in the health facilities under Panbang Dungkhag in Zhemgang Dzongkhag.

Contributed By: Thinley Tobgyal (ADHO), Health Sector