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By writer to www.nation.co.ke

When two Jews meet and one has an issue, the opposite one robotically turns into a rabbi. This Jewish saying champions the significance of getting a good friend to share your issues with.

In skilled circles, it’s social work that embodies this spirit. However who invented social work and what’s all of it about?

This can be a nagging query that even students wrestle to unravel. However Jacob Miriti, 38, has taken it up as a occupation.

Miriti begins his day at 7.30a.m as a medical social employee on the Kenyatta Nationwide Hospital.

“Social work is a round occupation with no circumference, and whose centre is all over the place.” That’s the definition he assigns his work.

“It’s holistic,” he explains.

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Listening to folks’s issues and issues is his every day routine — and a job he says he loves. It reveals in his phrases and physique language.

Based on Miriti, social work is concerning the promotion, restoration, and enhancement of the features of people, households, and the higher society. All of us do it at some degree, he says.

“When two folks meet and one inquires concerning the welfare of the opposite, that’s a side of social work.”

In hospitals, reminiscent of the place he’s stationed, social work is geared toward giving well being care a human face.

Miriti studied social work on the Kenya Institute of Administration and has been at his current work station since 1982.

He took a break 9 years later to pursue a Bachelor of Arts course in group and well being research on the College of West England in Bristol.

He was then posted to the hospital’s renal unit and assigned the duty of counselling sufferers set to bear renal procedures reminiscent of dialysis.

“I counsel them on each the psychological and financial results of the remedy that they’re present process,” he explains.

“I additionally assist them address the unwanted effects of some situations like lack of weight, hair loss, and, in some situations, how to answer stigma and discrimination.”

His work is about being out there to take heed to the issues of others. Based on the social employee, one doesn’t need to have a right away answer. It’s not about strolling round with the important thing to all issues, as many suppose.

Based on Miriti, “Listening to somebody with out saying a phrase may make all of the distinction on this planet.”

It’s a tough job, he admits, but additionally spiritually rewarding. “The reward is in realizing that I’ve helped somebody and that I made a distinction of their life, nonetheless minimal,” he says.

Miriti is a member of a workforce of 30 social staff who cowl the sections of the hospital that require psycho-social help.

As a rule, he replies to the identical query a minimum of thrice a day. This requires persistence.

A profitable medical social employee must study to be the affected person’s good friend — he’s the great man or lady who understands the problems affecting the affected person in ways in which the attending docs or nurses could not.

For instance, Miriti’s obligations on the renal unit at Kenyatta embody explaining to the sufferers and shut relations the results of main procedures being carried out and the medication prescribed.

He additionally informs them concerning the causes of renal failure, the length of dialysis, and the potential of the household having to search for a kidney donor.

This helps mates, kin, and the sufferers to make selections that may alleviate misery.

A part of Miriti’s job additionally contains advising the hospital’s finance division to grant credit score to sufferers who’re unable to pay medical payments.

“I write a report detailing the historical past of the affected person and the preparations they’ve made to pay the payments,” he says.

Eager about doing this sort of work? Persistence and being out-going and non-judgmental are the important thing attributes that Miriti says will allow you to simply mingle with folks from completely different social settings and with various personalities.

You additionally want skilled coaching, ideally a Bachelor of Arts diploma in social work. The course is obtainable in most tertiary establishments.

— to www.nation.co.ke

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