ASA Savings and Loans organized a free medical screening for residents of Ashaiman at the St Augustine Catholic Church on 30th January 2024.
Some health workers from Firdalh’s Diagnostic Centre were contracted to screen inhabitants and traders for ailments including eye, malaria, typhoid, blood pressure and also check their blood sugar.
Some of the beneficiaries say they sometimes report to hospitals with different ailments and conditions, which usually scares them.
Out of the 167 adults screened, 2 tested positive for hepatitis B and were referred for further management, 10 tested positive for malaria and were placed on medication and counselled to sleep under mosquito-treated nets.
Also, those diagnosed with eye ailments were referred to see eye specialist for further management. 59.8% had high blood pressure and placed on anti-hypertensive drugs, with 37.7% of the total number having high glucose.
The participants were really excited about the initiative and were calling for more of such exercises.
After the exercise, the head of the medical team, Alhassan Haruna, commended ASA Savings and Loans for organizing the free exercise and admonished management to conduct similar exercises across the country.
The exercise was supervised by the Ashaiman Area Manager of the company, Mr Richmond Afari-Hayford and was joined by the Branch Manager Isaac Amoah who disclosed that this forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR).
The beneficiaries who received free drugs for various ailments heaped praises on management and staff of the company, and pleaded for similar exercises in the future.
Salamatu Abubakar, a trader who benefited from the exercise, said she and her colleagues who attended have been given medications and advised on healthy living. “We hardly get time to go for regular check-ups due to the nature of our trading activities,” she added.
Also present at the event was the CSR/Sustainability Manager of ASA, Richard Nartey.
