By
Bertha Badu-Agyei/Benjamin Akoto, GNA
Abomosu (E/R), May 15, GNA - The Department of
Gender under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and Divine
Mother and Child Foundation (DMAC) have screened over 500 women at Abomosu for
various diseases and feted them, to mark the
Mother’s day celebration.
The programme, supported by Promasidor,
producers of Indomie, Blue Skies, producers of natural fruit drinks and
Vodafone Ghana, offered screening on blood pressure, hepatitis, sugar, malaria
and ultra sound scan screening for pregnant women at Abomosu near Anyinam.
Ms
Juliana Abbequaye, the Acting Eastern Regional Director, Department of Gender,
in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the objective of the
intervention was to provide the opportunity for women to check their health
status.
Ms Abbequaye said going forward, her outfit
with support from all relevant stakeholders planned to organise empowerment
programmes in the rural communities to help women and especially the teenagers
to move away from early sex and focus on education.
The Executive Director of the DMAC, Mr Edmund
Duodu Atweri, said more than 7,000 pregnant women had benefited from free ultra
sound scan screening and 2000 other women and children in health screening
exercises.
The Foundation, he added, had procured a
mobile health screening van to be able to reach out to the rural communities to
ensure women had access to health services as part of their women empowerment
drive.
GNA