Job Well Done













Perfect Life Health Services and Ghana National Association of Adventist Students jointly organised a 5 days free Medical Outreach at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.

The program started and ended on Monday 4th and Friday 8th January, 2016 respectively. The outreach started each day at 10:00am and ended at 4:00pm. On a daily basis, the medical outreach team visited the prison to provide services such as blood pressure checking, body mass index (BMI), malaria and blood sugar testing, medical consultation, counseling, eye screening and pharmacy. All the services we provided were free of charge (that is, no one paid money for the services we provided).

All the outreach was held at the male prison except the morning of Thursday 7th January 2016 when the outreach was moved to the female prison for the female inmates and officers to be screened as well. All those who were screened were given free medicine when necessary.

At the end of the outreach a total of 1,408 inmates and officers were screened which is made up of 1259 males representing 89% and 149 females representing 11%. They were screened and given recommended medication when necessary. The major medical conditions we encountered include anaemia, waist pains, cough, candidiasis and sexually transmitted diseases such as Gonorrhoea. The program was well organised and very successful. 

A big thank you goes to the medical outreach team who worked tirelessly to make the program successful. On behalf of the organizers, I say God bless you.

 A special thank you goes to the following people for their generous support.
  • Southern Ghana Union Conference of SDA
  • Media houses (Ghana Television, Oman Fm and Valley View Radio) 
  • Pharmaceutical companies (Sharp, Kinapharma, Unichem and Pharmanova)
  • Churches (Legon, Adenta, Garrison, Sakumono Estate, Community 12 and 18 SDA churches) and Nsawam district of SDA church.
  • Vision Health Consult 
  • Ghana Association of  Quasi-Government Health Institutions
  • Individuals who donated money towards the program.
 

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