Ghana Trains Community Health Nurses

The health services of Ghana today are reaching into the most remote parts of the country through the special corps of community health nurses assigned to cover rural health centres and areas. A training school for community health nurses was opened by the government in March 1962 with the help of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in order to create a nursing service that would be responsible primarily for rural health programmes.

Young man in a reflective mood. A community health nurse, receiving practical training in child care at the Akim Oda orphanage, plays with the other youngsters, in the background. [c. November 1963]

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