Sankore (C/R), Feb. 3, GNA – The Ghana Baptist
Convention in collaboration with a team of medical officers
from the United States of America and Canada are undertaking
surgical operation and also offering medical service to about
2000 needy patients in the Central and Western Regions. The 16-member medical team made up of surgical
specialists, doctors, nurses and evangelists are performing
operating on patients with hernia, and providing health services
to those with hypertension, diabetes and other ailments at the
Ghana Baptist Convention Clinic at Sankore. Mr Jarvis Djokoto, Director of the Ghana Baptist
Convention, responsible for Socio-Economic and Relief
Service, told the Ghana News Agency in a telephone
conversation at Winneba after the medical team had
successfully performed operations and provided treatment for
other patients at Sankor, a suburb of Winneba. He said the exercise with its foreign partners known, as
“Fisher of Men Ministry” in US and Canada was part of the
Convention’s social responsibilities. Mr Djokoto said some patients had already been operated
upon while others received treatment for hypertension and
diabetes at Senya Beraku and Kweikrom in the Central Region. He said the team would also go to Begoso and Tarkwa in the
Western Region to provide similar services before the end of
their two weeks stay in the Ghana. He said the exercise would cost the Convention and the team
about 100,000 US dollars but that the patients were being made
to pay a very moderate fee to enable them to receive the
assistance. Mr Djokoto said the treatment would not be given to only
members of the Baptist Convention but also to everyone who
would need assistance. Rev Kojo Amo, General Secretary of the Baptists
Convention expressed the church’s gratitude to the medical
team for offering health delivery service to Ghanaians at very
affordable cost.
Source: GhanaWeb
