Home care service to be revamped |18 July 2023

The meeting in progress

The Seychelles Home Care Agency (SHCA) is looking to revamp the home care service with the best module available and adaptable in the country’s context that will suit both caregivers and clients.

This was said by the SHCA’s chief executive, Dr Daniel Kallee, following the agency’s meeting with President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House yesterday afternoon.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss on the way forward in terms of policy and care giving models.

He was accompanied to the meeting by the board members led by chairperson Marie-Celine Malbrook. With the agency under the umbrella of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Family, also present in the discussion was the minister in charge, Marie Celine Zialor.

“Since the creation of the agency this year, it’s now that we’ve been formalising the migration from the Agency for Social Protection to the work of the agency itself and it was important for us to firstly meet up with the president for a discussion to chart the way forward for a high and quality home care service,” Dr Kallee said.

Dr Kallee said that the agency is revising the wholehome caring system in the country together with assessing the performance of carers among the 3000 plus registered on a full-time and on half-day allowance basis, to seek for the best qualified for permanent employment.

He added that training will be given to carers to help them upgrade their skills to seek certification for employment.

Meanwhile all carers working on full and half-day basis are receiving benefits such as pension and 13th month pay.

“The agency has been given a task to go and see how we can bring in different models that will be adapted in the Seychelles’ context, so that the carers and the recipients will be happy in terms of the service given and received,” Dr Kallee added.

Text & photo by Patrick Joubert