Grateful Givers Foundation, an Accra-based non-profit organisation, has provided free health screening for residents of Kanyepe, formerly Kongire, in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region.
The medical outreach was aimed at responding to the health needs of residents. They were screened for malaria, hepatitis B, fasting blood sugar, blood pressure and eye problems and treated. Complex cases were referred to the district hospital for treatment.
Kanyepe, a farming community with over 250 residents, has no health facility. This compels residents to travel long distances to other communities to access healthcare.
Speaking to Asaase News during the exercise, the founder of the foundation, Maame Akosua Serwaa Gyening, stated that Kanyepe was selected because residents cannot access healthcare in their immediate environment.
Gyening said, “We are here to provide healthcare for the people in this community because we found out they don’t have any health centre – not even a CHPS compound –, no roads, lights or water. So, we decided to visit them, share in their experience and also bring healthcare to their doorstep for once in their life time.”
The foundation collaborated with the newly enskinned chief, Kanyepewura Solomon Salifu Tampure, to execute the exercise, with a donation of used clothing to residents.
As part of its social interventions, the foundation donated medical consumables to the Larabanga Clinic in the West Gonja Municipality and the Gindabor Health Centre in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District.
The beneficiaries thanked the foundation for the gesture.
Residents of Kanyepe commended the chief for supporting the community through the foundation.
Grateful Givers Foundation, last year, supported residents of Kutito No-2 in the West Gonja Municipality with a similar medical outreach.
Reporting by Tahiru Abdul-Washiru in the Savannah Region
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