A child going through the de-worming process
AS PART of activities marking its 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSG) on Tuesday provided free medical care to over 1,500 people from Bronyibima, a community in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central region.
The exercise worth thousands of Ghana Cedis formed part of the association’s social responsibility policy towards people in the area.
Some of the services provided included malaria screening and the de-worming of children.
Addressing the residents, the owner of a pharmacy outlet in Cape Coast, Sally Honney, stressed the need for the public to take only prescribed medicines whenever they fell sick.
Ms. Honney said taking the wrong kind of medicine and sharing medications with friends and family without first consulting a doctor was dangerous to people’s health and may even result in death.
She cautioned the people to ensure environmental cleanliness to reduce the high rate of malaria cases in the country saying government could use the funding used for malaria treatment programmes to undertake more developmental projects.
In an interview with the Executive Secretary of PSG, Dennis Sena Awitty, he said some activities marking the AGM included a symposium, exhibition, training program and health walk culminating in a thanksgiving service at the Calvary Charismatic Church (CCC).
From Sarah Owusu-Darlington, Bronyibima
