‘ef
by a strong,
and at present expatriate,
leader.
These divisions are as
follows: 1) Primary Care/Public Health, 2) Secondary Care (hofpital staff),
3) Support Services, 4) Planning and Evaluation, 5) Manpower
1.
Training.
Primary Care
This division will be headed by an expatriate physiciah
health training, with a Marshallese counterpart who is a Medica]
public health training.
public health
with public
Officer with
They would be responsible for al] prgmary care and
activities.
Their
staff would consist
of
Beven medical
assistant or graduate nurse specialists, all of whom would have had public
health training.
These personnel would carry out preventive Jactivities in
areas of health education, maternal and child health, communicable diseases,
chronic diseases, environmental health and sanitation, nutriti@n, and mental
health and social problems.
The staff would also include two sdnitarians and
four secretaries.
2.
Secondary Care
.
As with most health care institutional operations, there fis need for a
large number of personnel to care for acutely il] patients[ that require
services 24 hours per day, seven days a week.
The secondary care portion of
this health care plan requires by far the greatest number of pemsonnel of the
entire health care system.
Hospital management follows a more
of administration and personnel
requirements
than do rural
lear cut plan
health
care
The manpower needs for secondary care can be
nderstood by
reference to the list of manpower requirements included at the
d of Section
components.
IX,
3.
Support Services
One of the most important components of a successful healt&
that
of
support
services.
Without
communication, even qualified personne!
satisfactorily perform their duties.
supplies,
care plan is
transpqrtation
and
in the rural areas
gre unable to
The Division of Support
Services would
be headed by an expatriate director and due to non-availability
of qualified
Marshallese personnel each of his section chiefs would also need
to initially
be expatriates.
and
Communication
Inventory.
4.
This includes the Maintenance Officer, the Transportation
Officer
and
the
Officer
in
Charge
of
Bupplies
and
Other staff include pharmacists, secretaries, repagrmen, etc.
Planning and Evaluation
The Division of Planning
and Evaluation is essential
progress and monitoring of health care functions.
The head of
for continued
Ehis division