First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo
The Rebecca Foundation, in collaboration with the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council and the Ghana Health Service, is organising medical outreach programmes in four districts in the Upper East Region.
The beneficiary districts include the Builsa South, Kassena-Nankana West, Bawku West and the Nabdam Districts.
First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo is leading her foundation and a team of specialists to the districts to ensure that persons who hitherto wouldn’t have had specialist care get the needed attention.
The Upper East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage, told DAILY GUIDE in Bolgatanga that all arrangements have been made to ensure that the medical outreach programme becomes successful.
“The Regional Coordinating Council is ready, the Ghana Health Service is equally ready to deliver. We are only waiting for the first lady and her team to arrive in the region, then the programme will start. This is an opportunity for the beneficiary districts and communities to get specialist attention and diagnosis of their problems,” she said.
Madam Abayage expressed optimism that the medical outreach programme would afford the first lady the opportunity to also see at first hand some of the developmental challenges in deprived communities in the Upper East Region.
The medical outreach programme started in the Kassena-Nankana West District yesterday, and it would move to Bawku West District today.
On Wednesday, the team would be in Builsa South and the wrap up on August 8 in the Nabdam District.
There will be counselling services on healthy lifestyles and referrals of major health cases for further medical attention.
FROM Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bolgatanga