MEMBERS of the Accra Ring Road Central Rotary Club last Saturday organized a free medical care for residents of Asempaneye, a farming village in the Akuapem North District in the Eastern Region.
The exercise, which involved a 10-man medical team, including five doctors, was used to screen the people, mostly the aged, women and children of various health problems.
Beneficiaries with minor health conditions were provided free drugs while those with serious ailments were referred to the Eastern Regional Hospital at Koforidua and the Tetteh Quarshie Hospital at Akuapem-Mampong.
The initiative was also used to present a 100 school uniforms, exercise books and stationery, as well as footballs to the 100 school children in the village, which members of the club have adopted and are putting up a three-unit class room block.
The school building would provide a conducive teaching and learning environment for the pupils and their teachers who, hitherto, were accommodated in a dilapidated mud structure that posed danger to them.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic during the exercise, the Service Project Director of the club, Mr Victor Yaw Asante, said the club embarked on the health screening and presented the school uniforms and stationery to the community as part of their community assistance project aimed at improving the lives of the beneficiary community.
He said through the various fund raising, members of the club were able to raise GH¢3,000, which had been spent on the first phase of the school building project, comprising a library and a staff common room in addition to a playing field.
Mr Asante added that “we are committed to raising an additional GH¢50, 000 for the second and third phase of the school project”.
“The project will signify the realisation of the objective of the club to provide community service to communities who are less fortunate in the country and also to support the government to provide public services to the citizens of Ghana”, Mr Asante stated.
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