Graphic, ABL hold 12th annual health screening for Adabraka residents
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), supported by the Lions Club of Accra, are holding the annual health screening exercise for residents of Adabraka in Accra.
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The exercise annually sees to the health needs of thousands of residents and others from nearby communities and provides them free medication for a number of conditions.
Organisers are hopeful of high patronage as usual. Patrons are being screened for malaria, typhoid fever, cholera, hypertension, diabetes and other common ailments. There is also dental and eye-care with free supply of glasses for those certified to need them.
Patrons are also being registered onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) while those with expired cards are having them renewed. They are also counseled on how best to manage their health.
Parents attending with their children are also given free insecticide treated mosquito nets.
The Corporate Communications Manager of the GCGL, Emmanuel Agyei Arthur, expressed joy at the response of residents to the call to examine their health, saying it represents a huge endorsement of the annual exercise and an encouragement to continue offering the support.
He said while it is a way to give back to the community that has hosted the operations of the company and continue to support it, it will also ensure they are in good health to pursue their economic and domestic chores.
“It is also to ensure they have an all-year round access to good health that is why register them onto the NHIS”, he said.
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The Manager in charge of Sustainability at ABL, Cyrus DeGraft-Johnson, who said the partnership with Graphic to improve the health conditions of Adabraka residents is a worthy way to say thank you, explained that it is also a way to ensure that every experience with the company’s products is positive.
He the free NHIS registration and renewal has really caught on well with residents and that organisers would consider an appeal by the chief of Adabraka, Nii Tetteh Adjabeng II, to hold the exercise in other parts of Adabraka to spread its benefits. The event has mostly been held at Official Town, including the current one at the Aditrom School compound.
Nii Tetteh Adjabeng II, together with the Adabraka Atukpai Queenmother, Naa Korkor Ajeoyi I, were grateful to the organisers for their continued support for the community and urged residents to patronize products of the organisers and to ensure the programme is sustained.