Residents of Pong-Tamale, a farming community in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region are calling for regular medical outreach exercises in the community.
According to them, the nearest health facility in the community is always without medicines and other logistics to attend to the health needs of the people.
Over 20 residents of Pong-Tamale in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern region have been referred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital for treatment after medical doctors from Cubanitos Nortenos in collaboration With Gina Pharma Limited conducted a health outreach in the community.
About 1,000 people were attended to, out of which, about 20 people who were diagnosed with some complex diseases were referred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital for further treatment.
The medical doctors, numbering about 20 from the Cubanitos Nortenos team, a group of Ghanaian Cuban-trained doctors including Cuban doctors working in Ghana, used the occasion to educate residents of the community on preventive health, healthy life, and the dangers of self-medication. The most common non-infectious disease observed was hypertension among patients of 30 years and above.
Gina Pharma, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies provided over sixty thousand cedis worth of medicines and other hospital equipment to enable the doctors to attend to the health needs of the people of Ponh-Tamale.
Assemblymember of the community, Seidu Munkaila was very grateful to the Cubanitos Nortenos team and Gina Pharma Limited, saying, many residents in his electoral area are poor people who do not have the capacity to check themselves medically on a regular basis.
He has, therefore, called on government and other organizations to support the Initiative by the Cubanitos Nortenos team in making exercises of this nature, regular in the less privileged communities.
Speaking to Metro News, many residents of the community, also added their voices to calls being made by the assembly members to help make the exercise a regular activity in deprived communities like Pong-Tamale.
On their part, Baba Musah, chairman of the medical group thanked Gina Pharma Limited, explaining that their reason for choosing a less privileged community like Pong-Tamale for the outreach is the fact that, many people from such communities are poor and unable to meet their medical demands.
He also called on other businesses and individuals to follow in the footsteps of Gina Pharma Limited by supporting them to cover more deprived communities with their medical outreach.
By: Alhassan D Baba | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
