Microfin, Health Service promote healthy practices

The Microfin Rural Bank at Gomoa Pomadze in the Gomoa East District in the Central Region is collaborating with the Ghana Health Service  to educate its clients on healthy practices.

The collaboration will enable the Gomoa East District Health Service to train the staff of Microfin Rural Bank on the prevention of Ebola, cholera, diarrhoea and malaria. 

 The staff will also be trained on hand washing and good environmental practices which are believed to be the most reliable and effective ways of preventing many diseases. 

Officials from the Gomoa East District Health Service last week trained the bank officials at their head office at Gomoa Pomadze. 

The  training was facilitated by Ms Veronica Amoako and Mr Jerome Kwesitey Bomal, a public health nurse and a health information officer respectively of the Gomoa East District.

The District Health Service will also provide the bank with community health nurses who will  educate the bank’s microfinance clients through group meetings, local radio stations and community information centres.

The Marketing Manager of the bank, Mrs Sheila Appiah Kubi, indicated that any form of microfinance delivery could not be effective if the health needs of the clients were not incorporated in its product design.