Angela

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Something that struck me about reading this pertinent article is that Many more women should be eligible for a PATS funded companion. Numerous women and others in Centralia e.g Sunset Health or Katherine West districts do not have a great command of English and their Language would either be that of their community and/or Kriol. Although they may speak broken English the understanding of medical & postnatal directions especially written is often fraught. Community Language Centres exist and personnel there could be co-opted into innovating a simpler and perhps semi-pictorial form of document which could be carried home in a plastic sleeve to protect against heat, dust & humidity. A higher degree of monitoring by HCs and an expectation of compliance is to be encouraged in subtle but consistent ways. Backup by pdf. is also required....try , try,again