SASNET and Go THERAPY offer rehabilitation services to stroke survivors


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Osiem (E/R), Sept 11, GNA – The Stroke
Association Support Network, Ghana(SASNET-Ghana), a stroke advocacy  group and Go THERAPY,  a USA based organisation  in collaboration with the Hawa Memorial
Saviour Hospital have launched a community Life after stroke programme  at Osiem in the Eastern Region.

The programme is aimed at strengthening the
access of stroke survivors to qual

Osiem (E/R), Sept 11, GNA – The Stroke
Association Support Network, Ghana(SASNET-Ghana), a stroke advocacy
  group and Go THERAPY,  a USA based organisation  in collaboration with the Hawa Memorial
Saviour Hospital have launched a community Life after stroke programme
  at Osiem in the Eastern Region.

The programme is aimed at strengthening the
access of stroke survivors to quality rehabilitation services in their
communities and to speed up their re-integration into the community.

Speaking to the media after the launch of the
project, the Director of Operations of SASNET-Ghana, Mr Ebenezer Ad Adams
explained that normally stroke survivors outside the regional capitals of the
country lacked access to quality physio-therapy services and this turn to slow
down their rehabilitation and re-integration into their communities.

He said the project was therefore aimed at
providing quality rehabilitation services to such people in their communities.

Mr Ad Adams explained that the programme
included; the training of the caregivers to continue to provide support
rehabilitation services to the stroke survivor in the absence of the
physio-therapy specialists.

He said the project was also aimed at
empowering the stroke survivors, their families and communities through raising
awareness, promoting inclusion and elimination of poverty and discrimination.

Mr Ad Adams said Go THERAPY was supporting the
programme with technical personnel and funding and would be extended to other
districts in the country to bring quality rehabilitation to the doorsteps of
stroke survivors.

Ms Robin 
Famatta Baker, Executive Director and co-founder of  Go THERAPY 
said her organisation was aimed at 
helping to improve the lives of people of Africa suffering from serious
diseases like stroke, hypertension and other none communicable diseases.

She said stroke and hypertension were the
second highest cause of deaths in the country and there was therefore the need
for more attention to be focused on resolving the challenges facing stroke
survivors to help improve on the situation.

GNA


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