News:
January 28, 2021
Chairman of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, Hon. Osei Bonsu Amoah, says the health needs of his constituents still remain a number priority on his agenda.
He therefore would leave no stone unturned to ensure that they receive the best of medical care to enable them stay healthy and contribute their quota to the development of the area and the country at large.
Hon. Amoah who is also the MP for Akuapem South made this observation on Monday moments after presenting some medical suppliers to a combined medical team from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Koforidua Government Hospital and Kom Clinic to begin their two weeks intensive free eye screening and surgery for his constituents.
The exercise is taking place in over 28 demarcated centers across the constituency.
The first phase of the project which is expected to end on Sunday, August 21, 2016, will see the medical team screen the eyes of patients and make referrals for further treatment and surgery if any.
The second phase which will begin on Monday, August 22, 2016 will also see the medical team conduct surgery to patients who have been referred for that exercise.
The Akuapem South legislator told Kasapafmonline.com on the sidelines of the event after visiting some centers in Brekuso, Ahwerase, Aburi, Jamaicaso, and Kitase that apart from the medical suppliers he sponsored, he is also taking care of the cost of surgery, accommodation, transportation and feeding of the medical team.
According to him, he was motivated to be part of the sponsors of the event based on the outcome of previous health screening exercises he has been conducting for his people.
“I must emphasis that the cost is from my own personal resources to augment other health intervention programs for my people”, he noted.
The leader of the medical team, Curtis Siaw Addae, an Optometrist at the KATH Eye Center said his outfit is expecting to screen over 8,000 people in the exercise.
As at the time of the interview, the medical team had recorded over 50 cases of cataract, glaucoma among other cases.