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Joana Gyan Foundation offers free medical screening for the aged – SEE PHOTOS
Joana Gyan Foundation on Sunday, June 28, 2020, climaxed its five-day mission to Wassa Agona Amenfi in the Western North Region, with a free medical screening for the aged in the District.
As part of the foundation’s cooperate social responsibilities and its focus on improving health care and also, provide special care for the aged, collaborated with some health practitioners to ensure that the aged in the Wassa Agona Amenfi township remain healthy.
According to the secretary of the foundation, Naana Lexis Opoku – Agyemang, the CEO and founder of the organization, Mrs. Joana Gyan Cudjoe, who is the Development Queen Mother of the town, Nana Hemaa Adwoa Awo ( I), prioritize the health of the aged in the community as well as the health of people of all ages in the community. “We are doing it for free, it is for all the elderly people in the Wassa Agona Amenfi District. This is part of the organization’s core focus for development”.
The exercise was massively patronized by old men and women in the vicinity trooping to the screening center with a recorded attendance of over 70%.
The beneficiaries were screened of various indicators like; Diabetes, Hepatitis B, blood sugar, ECG which checks the work rate of the heart, blood pressure, eye screening, among other diseases. They were also advised some were referred to Hospitals for further treatment.
The foundation after the health screening also donated food items to the populaces of the locality.
(Source: Erica Arthur)
