Healthcare Seminar Addresses Risks Sprouting from Ignorance

The Women’s Fellowship department of Believers Church Dhemaji Diocese trained more than 30 women to teach healthcare classes in underdeveloped communities. The seminar went from 24th to 27th April 2013, teaching the women many things about basic healthcare, nutrition and hygiene.

“Mostly in our villages,” shared a participant named Urmila, “women never visit doctors during pregnancy and do not know how to take vitamins and care for themselves. As a result, they give birth to weak children and they also get sick and even die. So, as we have learned in the training, we have to educate them and teach them the importance of visiting the doctors and taking care of themselves during their pregnancy.”

Village myths were also exposed and addressed. “In the village when someone gets diarrhea,” said Kamini, “we would ask them not to drink water because we thought if they drank water, they would pass more. But through this training I learned that we should give more water to the diarrhea patient so that they will not be dehydrated.”

Believers Church Women’s Fellowship is planning to start community healthcare classes in thousands of rural areas.