At least 500 children in Busunu and its surrounding communities in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region, have received free medical screening.
It was organised by Naada Jinapor Foundation, a non-profit making organisation that is aimed at providing basic healthcare for the vulnerable in society, especially children.
The exercise that saw a massive turn out of residents in the area, was carried out by a group of medical team who screened children on pediatric conditions, skin conditions and other general health conditions.
Children who were diagnosed with certain conditions were given the needed medications.
Speaking to Asaase News during the exercise, the founder of the Naada Jinapor Foundation who is also the wife of the MP for the Damongo Constituency, Naada Jinapor indicated that it has become necessary for the foundation to give back to society.
She added that it is the Damongo constituency that gave the husband and her the mandate therefore the need to bring healthcare to the door step of the people in the area.
“Our focus now will be primarily children health, children nutrition, because we feel that children are the future and we have to take care of them,” she said.
Naada mentioned that the foundation also provides financial support for parents to buy drugs that are not in the organisation’s dispensary.
Kwasi Obeng Mensah, leader of the medical team at the West Gonja Municipal Hospital said the team will refer cases to bigger health facilities for further management if the need arises.
“This is not the first time Naada Jinapor Foundation is organising this, and we have been doing due diligence to cases that we see,” he added.
The assemblyman for the Busunu electoral area Thomas Dari Oman, who thanked the foundation for the free health screening said this is the first of its kind in his electoral area.
He added that the exercise will help improve the health status of the people in the area because there cannot be development if the people are not healthy. He called for more of such exercises for the people of Busunu.
A beneficiary mother Kadri Fawziah expressed gratitude to the NGO in conversation with Asaase News.
“I brought my two children and the doctors took care of them, they gave them medicine and after that they gave them food. We are very grateful to Naada Jinapor Foundation for their good works because we have never experienced this before,” she said.
Tahiru Abdul-Washiru
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