By Christopher Tetteh
Berekum, (Bono), July 26, GNA – A total of 10,029 residents in the Berekum Municipality of the Bono Region, have benefited from the Ghana Medical Relief’s (GMR) 2025 medical health outreach, knowing their various health conditions and provided with medication accordingly.
Mr Samuel Brobbey, the Project Coordinator of the GMR has announced.
The GMR is a registered Non-profit humanitarian Organization in Ghana and the United States and works to provide free healthcare services to people.
According to Mr Brobbey, the five-day outreach was conducted between Monday July 21 and Friday July 25, 2025 at the Berekum Holy Family Hospital providing free screening, which covered Nose, Ear and Throat as well as hypertension.
It further provided an opportunity for the beneficiaries to know their various health conditions for diabetes, sugar, psychiatry, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, Ophthalmology and dentistry conditions.
Speaking at the closing session of the outreach at Berekum, Mr Brobbey explained that some of the beneficiaries with health complications were provided with free medication including oral care.
Others also underwent free hernia and fibroid surgeries during the outreach, which also attended to prostate enlargement conditions while pregnant women also benefited from free scans.
He said many people were also registered freely under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) while others had their cards renewed for them.
Mr Brobbey explained that about 100 health professionals, and medical specialists and officers and experts from the United States and Ghana conducted the medical outreach programme, describing it as the biggest since the health mission of the GMR was instituted in 2018.
The 2025 outreach was jointly conducted by the Berekum Citizens Association, Holy Family Hospital and the Ghana Health Service.
Mr Brobbey said 25 per cent of the clients, mostly above 60 years were treated for various health conditions, saying the exercise recorded 15 per cent of children below 10 years, with Influenza, Fungi Skin infection, and Malnutrition, topping the recorded cases of the children.
Dr Samuel Kwapong Owusu, the President of GMR, explained that the outreach was to augment the nation’s efforts towards the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs3).
The global goals three enjoins countries around the world to promote well-being for all people.
Dr Owusu expressed appreciation to the partners, volunteers and all and sundry for making the outreach a success.
Professor Daniels Obeng-Ofori, the President of Berekuman Citizens Association and the Vice President of the Catholic University of Ghana, thanked the GMR and its partners for the exercise.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Lydia Kukua Asamoah