Kristo Asafo Mission ‘screens’ Awoshie residents
Scores of residents of Awoshie and its environs have for the past three days been trooping to Apostle Safo’s School of Arts and Sciences (Great ASSAS) to participate in the annual health screening organised by the Founder of Kristo Asafo Mission (KAM), Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo Kantanka.
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This year’s exercise was put together by OKS Medical Consult in collaboration with the Sole Health and Wellness Centre in Accra.
Beneficiaries were screened for breast cancer, blood pressure, Hepatitis B and C, random blood sugar testing and eye examination, prostate specific antigen (PSA) and dental screening at subsidised fees.
They were given medications while those with complications were referred to the appropriate health centres for further treatment.
The exercise is part of activities being organised as a prelude to the 36th Annual Technology Exhibition by the KAM scheduled for Sunday, January 1, 2017, at Awoshie in Accra.
Charges
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OKS Medical Consult, Dr Ohene Kwabena Safo, said participation was encouraging.
According to him, the collaboration between OKS Medical Consult and the Sole Health and Wellness Centre was meant to provide quality health screening to the residents at subsidised cost.
“We are doing this so that a lot of people can get screened. We realised that the actual cost that they are supposed to bear when they visit the health centres is way beyond them so we have to reduce that to very low rates,” he said.
Dr Safo said the main purpose of the exercise was to screen, detect cases and if possible refer patients to the appropriate health centres, adding that a lot of people usually found it difficult to go for health screening on their own.
He expressed the hope that by next year a lot of sponsors would be brought on board in order to make the entire exercise free.
He admonished Ghanaians to take precautionary measures and go for periodic health screening in order to detect diseases which might be hidden in their bodies for early treatment.
Keep fit exercise
Earlier in the morning, the CEO of Sole Health and Wellness Centre, Oheneba Ntim Barimah, also held a keep fit exercise with some of the residents on the Great ASSAS Park.
Known as ‘Recharge your health,’ the exercise was meant to encourage good health practices among Ghanaians.
Precursor programmes
Earlier in the week, the Kristo Asafo Students Union (KASU) held the third annual inter-regional youth technology exhibition.
The programme saw the exhibition of various technological artefacts made by some of the students, including armoured vehicles, standing fans and small-sized helicopters.
Additionally, a youth forum was held for the youth in the church to educate them on the doctrines of the church.
According to the National Vice-President of KASU, Nana Kofi Safo, the “forum will serve as a platform for the youth to ask questions about the church’s doctrines and be given clarifications on pertinent issues that bother them”.
