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Ashaiman pupils benefit from free screening

More than 1,500 pupils of the Ashaiman 1 and 2 cluster of schools have benefited from a medical screening exercise conducted by a team of medical personnel from the New Crystal Health Services (NCHS).

The pupils were screened and given both dental and eye treatment while toothpaste was distributed to all the beneficiaries of the exercise, with support from Unilever Ghana. 

The exercise began with a talk by hiplife artiste Okyeame Kwame, who is collaborating with NCHS to educate the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

Okyeame Kwame, who is also a health ambassador, stressed the need for people to take advantage of such screening exercises, saying that they helped to detect diseases. He called on parents and teachers in the area to ensure that all children in the area benefited from such programmes and also visited the hospital on regular basis for medical examination to avoid contracting preventable diseases.

A dentist with the NCHS, Dr Emmanuel Hinneh Kyere, said most of the children examined had tooth decay, bleeding gums, as well as discoloured teeth.

He said although most of the pupils claimed they brushed their teeth, it was observed that they were not brushing well enough and this had led to tartar and stains on the teeth.  

He said the only way to avoid these problems was  to brush the teeth regularly and properly to prevent bacteria from dwelling in the mouth.

Dr Kyere also advocated the use of soft brushes and the adoption of the right techniques of brushing the teeth to achieve good results.

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