Health screening exercise for 3 communities
Three communities in Accra have benefitted from a health screening exercise organised by the Dzorwulu branch of the Rotary Club.
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Over 200 people from Pig Farm, Mamobi and Kotobabi, all suburbs of the national capital, benefited from the exercise, during which they were screened for Hepatitis B, diabetes, high blood pressure, among other diseases.
Some of the beneficiaries were given medication, while others were appropriately counselled.
The exercise, dubbed, “Medic Access”, was the club’s contribution to disease prevention in particular and treatment as well, which it said was one of its objective.
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The President of the club, Ms Yvonne Ablorh-Quarcoo, said the initiative was aimed at helping the less privileged to access free health care.
She said it was the club’s belief that early detection and treatment of a health condition was the best way to stop that condition from getting worse, hence the screening exercise.
Ms Ablorh-Quarcoo said the club had provided a library for one of the schools in Dzorwulu, adding that the next project it had planned for that community was the rehabilitation of the canteen of the Dzorwulu Basic School.
She said it was good for projects that would impact positively on the people to be run in less-privileged communities and encouraged all members of the public to help in their small way to improve the living conditions of the under-privileged.
