The Adansi Development Association (ADA) has rolled out a health screening exercise in the Ashanti Region town of Akrofuom and its environs.
The programme coincided with this year’s World Menstrual Hygiene Day where the Association together with the Rotary Club of Obuasi sensitized school children on the need to maintain hygienic and safe menstruation.
Motivation
Talking about the rationale behind the exercise, the President of the Adansi Development Association Henrietta Oppong said true to the Association’s core mandate to help improve the livelihoods and wellbeing of residents of Adansi, the group decided to embark on the health screening exercise.
“We are doing this across the 7 paramouncies to ensure that the older people will be screened to know their state of health and how to live their lives to the fullest”, Oppong said.
Beneficiaries were screened for blood pressure, diabetes, malaria, BMI and body temperature.
Development
The Founder of the group Fred Oppong bemoaned the level of development of the towns in Adansi. He said Adansi with all its resources lags in terms of physical or infrastructural development. He, however, opined that the group was purposely formed to ensure that it puts pressure on authorities to make sure Adansi gets the development it needs.
“We have realized that Adansi lags when it comes to physical and human development and it is worrying. It is for this reason that the Adansi Development Association has come to ensure that we continue to push for the development that Adansi needs and craves”, he said.
DCE
The District Chief Executive for Akrofuom, Maurice Jonas Woode commended the Rotary Club of Obuasi for launching the Sanitary pad bank. He said the bank was a game changer which will help solve menstrual poverty in the district and beyond.
He seized the opportunity to commend GES for releasing the school children to take part in the exercise. The school children present were supplied with free sanitary pads.
He also threw more light on the activities of the Adansi Development Association saying that the group has the interest of Adansi at heart and praised them for championing the cause of Adansi.
SOURCE: SAMPSON MANU
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