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Tamale, Ghana – Health non-profit NGO, Cornerstone Medical Outreach (CORMO) has provided free healthcare to one thousand two hundred (1,200) residents of Naaga community in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana.
The beneficiaries, who included children and adults, received free screening and treatment for malaria, respiratory tract infections and skin infections.
About 400 children were also given free pairs of footwears of which 350 were brand new as well as 450 clothes. Additionally, 380 aged men and women were gifted 200 pairs of footwears, 100 pieces of cloths and 250 pieces of clothes.
Also, an estimated 100 young girls were given menstrual caps and educated on good menstrual hygiene.
Dr. Jessica Samira Bogobiri, founder and Executive Director of CORMO told SavannahNewsOnline in an interview after the organization held the health outreach in the Naaga community in December to mark the end of the year 2023.
According to the Family Physician Specialist, the Naaga community was chosen because it is a deprived area with “only a health centre and very bad road to the nearest hospital in the municipal capital in Navrongo which is about 2.5hrs by car.”
“It has a river which is infested with the black fly that causes onchocerciasis (river blindness). Other conditions such as skin infections, malaria, respiratory tract infections etc are prevalent. These informed our decision to choose Naaga for the outreach this time”, she added.
Dr. Bogobiri urged residents of the Naaga community to seek early medical treatment at their health centre whenever they fall sick.
She said seeking early medical attention would enable health professionals diagnose “potentially serious conditions” so that they can be referred early to the municipal hospital in Navrongo.
Since its inception in 2017, CORMO has done about 12 medical outreaches across different communities in Northern Ghana.
Meanwhile, apart from the provision of free healthcare delivery, the Naaga community benefited more from the clothes and footwear donations which is always a component of the outreach program by CORMO thereby making the community standout in all the organisation’s previous outreaches.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Kusiele Ziem
