Cedar Mountain Chapel organises free health screening for communities

By
Eunice Hilda Ampomah, GNA

Accra, Oct. 7, GNA – The Cedar Mountain Chapel
Assemblies of God Church, East Legon branch over the weekend, organised a free
health screening and medication exercise for squatters around East Legon,
Okponglo and surrounding communities.

The medical outreach which was part of the
celebration of the Church’s eighth anniversary, provided general health
screening on glucose levels and health disorders including malaria, gastro
enteritis, skin infections, and malnutrition to the public.

The exercise also included an eye screening
exercise where participants were given free spectacles to support in their
vision or correct their eyes.

Reverend Dr Stephen Yenusom Wengam, Lead
Pastor of the Church, said the exercise involved the screening of 2000
squatters.

He said the Church often undertook programmes
to extend support to the needy apart from preaching the gospel, adding that the
female members of the church on Mothers’ Day distributed food items to about
550 squatters in East Legon and its surrounding communities while the males
also distributed 300 mosquito nets and blankets to families on the Fathers’
Day.

Rev Dr Wengam said the Church has declared
this year, ‘a year of kindness’, hence the organisation of the free health
screening and other community support activities. 

Dr Nana Ama Mireku-Gyimah, a pharmacist with
the Chapel, told the Ghana News Agency that free medications – including
antacids for stomach pain, antibiotics for infections, analgesics for pain,
multivitamins and blood tonics for anemia, and antimalarial drugs- were given
to the participants.

She said the disorder mostly detected were
respiratory tract infections suspected to be caused by the climate conditions,
gastro conditions, skin infections and high blood pressure.

She said the exercise which targets adults and
children suspected to have challenging health concerns was also used by the
health experts at the church to win souls for Christ. 

Dr Mireku-Gyimah urged the public to be
cautious with medications intake explaining that every drug was a potential
poison and the manner in which one takes it would determine its efficacy.

“The best way to take care of one’s self is to
eat well, exercise well, rest well and do the will of God”, she said. 

Mr Abraham Aguriba, a Secretary of the Chapel’s
Board, said the exercise was also part of the five year strategic plan of the
Church focused on recommissioning its mandate which requires them to move out
and preach the gospel.

He said: “As a church we are blessed with over
20 medical personnel including doctors, pharmacists, nurses and lab
technicians. So we decided to use that opportunity to achieve the goal of the
strategic plan”.

Mr Aguriba said the Church had a session of
health screening and de-worming exercise for over 1000 children over a month
ago adding that the exercises were funded by the church though contributions
from members. 

He said through the vehicle of evangelism, the
Church provides various forms of support to the public by paying entry fees of
cars at toll booths, fares of passengers in commercial vehicles, meals of
people at restaurants, services at barbering shops, and fuel purchased at
filling stations.

“The Bible says we should reach out to people
by all means possible so whichever way you can reach out to people, you do that”,
he said.

GNA

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