At the Source of Health Care, Health Workers

Carol Bales — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:53:51 +0000

This post was originally published on VITAL, the blog of IntraHealth International.

Malik Jaffer is the deputy director of human resources for health and health systems strengthening for the IntraHealth International-led CapacityPlus project. I recently interviewed him about health worker heroes and what it’ll take to make more of them.

You’ve met a lot of amazing health workers over the past 20 years. Any who really inspired you?
Absolutely. For example, there’s a team of health workers in Soweto, South Africa, that work in a hospice. When I visited, the facility was full of men and women and a lot of children. I remember one baby that was suffering from AIDS. She looked about three months old and weighed only 10 or 12 pounds. She was tiny. But I came to find out she was a year old.

Author's name:

Carol Bales with Malik Jaffer

Publication Date:

December 2013

Leadership and Management

At the Source of Health Care, Health Workers