Alan Special Ladies (ASL) Medically Screen Kejetia
Traders.
Ladies group by the name Alan Special Ladies (ASL) during the week organized a medical screening exercise for market women and traders at the famous new Kejetia market in Kumasi.
Numbering about 500, the market women and traders were taken through body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, diabetes and malaria examination and testing.
The screening exercise which was undertaken by 25 physicians and nurses from the HOPE EXCHANGE medical facility also had traders being administered with the COVID-19 jab as most had not been vaccinated.
Each trader screened was given a dewormer to take home and treat worm infections in the night.
EXECUTIVE MEMBER:
Madam Christiana Okyere, Executive Member of the Alan Special Ladies speaking to the media said traders can only be able to come to sell at the market when they are healthy.
This, she noted, informed the decision to take the medical screening exercise to their doorsteps and get them examined for common ailments that silently kill the ordinary Ghanaian.
Madam Okyere said the group was also using the exercise to drum home the need for traders to periodically go to the hospital for a full medical screening.
By adhering strictly to such a medical regime, Madam Okyere intimated most untimely deaths could be avoided in the country.
APPRECIATION:
Madam Agartha Adomah, a fish seller commended the Alan Special Ladies for the gesture.
She noted that the screening exercise had afforded her the opportunity to test to know her sugar levels as well as general medical state.
Sarah Anima, a middle aged trader of utensils said she had not gone for a check-up at the hospital for the past 6 years.
The screening exercise, she said, had brought out the need for her to take her health seriously since there were signs of malaria in her blood stream. She therefore thanked the ASL group for the gesture.
STORY BY MICHAEL OFOSU-AFRIYIE, KUMASI.