A screen during the visit
Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited (CBG) has conducted a free health screening exercise for the people of Adaklu Ayaafo in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region.
The exercise is the climax of a series of health screening programmes undertaken by CBG as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to mark this year’s Mother’s Day celebrations.
Nearly 1000 women from across the district who benefit from the exercise were screened for conditions such as blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar level, and were educated on how to live a healthy lifestyle.
Beneficiaries who presented conditions were provided with free medications while those having critical conditions were referred to the hospital for further treatment.
Coordinator for 233 Medical Services, facilitators of the exercise, Raj Asani, urged Ghanaians to live a healthy lifestyle and periodically go for medical checkups.
“We are screening for cholesterol, sugar, diabetes, and we are also screening for high blood pressure. In most homes in this country, you can say that if you went door to door and you picked 10 to 20 homes you would find one of these conditions in every one of them.
“Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who do not check not because they don’t want to check, some can’t afford it and some just feel okay every single day and don’t see the need to check. When we do screening we find a lot of people who have these conditions,” Raj Asani stated.
The Managing Director of CBG, Dr. Naomi Worlali Kwetey, said the initiative formed part of CBG’s commitment to promote preventative health care and improve access to essential health services in underserved areas.
“Today CBG is in Adaklu mainly to look at preventive healthcare for our women and also a Mother’s Day gift for the women. So we are here today to check BP, Cholesterol, Diabetes, and then we know that every home you go to most of the time you see a woman with such a condition, and they may not even know. So, today one of the things we are doing is to check and then to educate.
“Apart from doing the health screening, we are also looking at financial literacy, empowerment of women. In CBG we have three women who are heading so women’s empowerment is one of the key things we are doing in CBG. So we are here to teach them a little bit about savings, about investment, and about how they can grow their business alongside their health,” Dr. Naomi explained.
DCE of Adaklu, Jerry Yao Ameko appreciated CBG for their support in his Municipality. He said, “Out of the 261 districts, the Consolidated Bank Ghana has decided to come to Adaklu, which is a privilege because they could have chosen to go elsewhere but we have them here, and we see it as a privilege.”
The team from the Bank also paid a courtesy call to the Paramount Chief as well as visited two facilities the Ahunda and Waya Health centers where patients who were on admission and having challenges with paying their bills were discharged freely through the help of CBG.
A Daily Guide Report