The Vivahealth Medical Foundation has embarked on its first major health outreach and donation exercise for 2022 in Pupuni and Tortibo which are both allied communities in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region.
The foundation which is made up of professional medical practitioners, international development practitioners, lecturers, financial developers, religious ministers and passionate students undertook a health screening exercise that covered high blood pressure, diabetes, hepatitis B and C, body mass index (BMI), and malnutrition in children. Adults and children who were due to be dewormed were attended to as well.
The foundation and its volunteers also visited the homes of bed-ridden and critically sick patients and footed the bills of at least 3 of them who were sent for emergency services at the VRA hospital in Akosombo.
Through the foundation’s partnership with Marie Stopes International, over 50 teenagers were engaged and counselled on HIV, teenage pregnancy and other topical sexual reproductive health issues.
The second part of the event, which was a donation exercise, saw the community members receive clothing, stationery, snacks and other relief items to help mitigate their living conditions.
The head of the foundation, Major (Dr) Carl Nutsugah who is an ENT resident surgeon at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital and a senior medical officer at the 37 military hospital expressed his profound gratitude to the volunteers and partners who made the exercise a huge success “humanity is grateful for your support and kind gesture towards our deprived communities. We’re not stopping here. We’ll continue this social causes as long as social injustice and deprivation continue to permeate our communities”.
The honourable member of parliament for the constituency, Mr Thomas Apem Darko together with the regional health director and the assemblyman for the communities, expressed joy over the foundation’s commitment to impacting humanity. At a breakfast meeting ahead of the main event, the MP said “as government officials, our efforts to uplift livelihoods in our communities can not be sufficient looking at our economic conditions as a developing nation. This is why benevolent entities like Vivahealth Medical Foundation are needed and always welcomed to our communities. My people and I are very grateful, and we can only but ask for more support”.
Vivahealth medical foundation hopes to embark on several more outreaches to explore hard-to-reach rural areas in Ghana with the aim of sending specialist care.
