More than 600 residents in the Gomoa Afransi and Gomoa Obuasi Areas have benefited from VEE Foundation’s free medical screening exercise to help improve their health status.
Beneficiaries, mostly aged, were diagnosed with diseases such as glaucoma, blood pleasure (BP) TB, chronic pains, malaria, fever, hepatitis, diabetes, stroke, hernia, arthritis, and many others.
The VEE Foundation, a non- governmental organisation (NGO), has Mrs Violet Akosua Obeng as Chief Executive Officer.
She is the wife of A-plus, an Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Gomoa Central.
Speaking to the media after the exercise at Afransi in the Gomoa Central District, Dr Dinah Nunoo -Mensah, a Physician at the Effutu Municipal government Hospital, expressed concern about the alarming rate of hypertensive cases recorded among the people, especially the aged, during the exercise.
She said it was unfortunate that majority of them never knew they were suffering such ailments due to irregular medical check-up at health facilities t
o know their status.
According to Dr Nunoo -Mensah another prevalence disease found among the aged was chronic back pain and urged the residents to undergo regular check-up to seek medical attention.
She admonished the residents to desist from self- medication which could cause more injury to their health.
Doctor Nunoo-Mensah said it was prudent to seek medical treatment at the hospitals where qualified Medical Officers would give the best prescriptions to better their health.
Mrs Obeng, the CEO of the foundation, on her part, said the health of the people in the Gomoa Central Constituency was her number one priority because without good health it would be extremely difficult for them to conduct their businesses.
She said her foundation and development partners would continue to organise regular health screening exercise for the people in the area since some of them could not afford to visit health facilities for medical check-up to know their health status.
The CEO added her voice to the clarion call o
n the people to undergo regular medical check-up to avert premature deaths and other related health matters that could create fear and panic in their lives.
Mrs Obeng said her foundation had conducted similar health screening exercises for the people of Gomoa Pomadze-Asebu, Aboso-Benso and Ekroful -Akropong communities to provide them with quality healthcare services.
Ms Rebeca Amenu, an eye specialist, cautioned the residents to take good care of their eyes and go to health facilities and stop the practice of using breast milk as treatment for eye problems whenever, they felt pains to avert complications and blindness, adding that glaucoma was real and cautioned the people to take care of their eyes.
Source: Ghana News Agency