Alan K Support Group Sponsors Medical Exercise For Traders

Madam Christiana Okyere, an executive member of Alan Special Ladies addressing the traders during the screening exercise at the New Kejetia Market arena

Ladies group by the name Alan Special Ladies (ASL) has organized a medical screening exercise for market women and traders at the famous new Kejetia market in Kumasi.

Numbering about 500, the market women and traders were taken through body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, diabetes and malaria examination and testing.

The screening exercise which was undertaken by 25 physicians and nurses from the HOPE EXCHANGE medical facility also had traders being administered with the COVID-19 jab as most had not been vaccinated.

Each trader screened was given a dewormer to take home and treat worm infections in the night.

EXECUTIVE MEMBER:

Madam Christiana Okyere, Executive Member of the Alan Special Ladies speaking to the media said traders can only be able to come to sell at the market when they are healthy.

This, she noted, informed the decision to take the medical screening exercise to their doorsteps and get them examined for common ailments that silently kill the ordinary Ghanaian.

Madam Okyere said the group was also using the exercise to drum home the need for traders to periodically go to the hospital for a full medical screening.

By adhering strictly to such a medical regime, Madam Okyere intimated most untimely deaths could be avoided in the country.

APPRECIATION:

Madam Agartha Adomah, a fish seller commended the Alan Special Ladies for the gesture.

She noted that the screening exercise had afforded her the opportunity to test to know her sugar levels as well as general medical state.

Sarah Anima, a middle aged trader of utensils said she had not gone for a check-up at the hospital for the past 6 years.

The screening exercise, she said, had brought out the need for her to take her health seriously since there were signs of malaria in her blood stream. She therefore thanked the ASL group for the gesture.

Speaking to OTEC News Kwame Agyenim Boateng an executive member of the group Sheila Owusu noted that the screening formed parts of the group’s Socila responsibilities.

She added that the group teamed up with professional health officials from accredited hospitals in the Region to carry out the event.

“beneficiaries were screened for hypertension, diabetes, malaria, breast cancer, eye defects among others”.

Individuals who were diagnosed with health complications recieved medicines, and they were told to visit health centers for immediate treatment of their ailments.

She however called on the traders to be health conscious by going for regular check up to avoid more complicated health issues.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com /Michael Ofosu-Afriyie, Kumasi