The Savannah Integrated Women Development Agency (SWIDA – Ghana) in collaboration other development partners in the Northern Region, has carried out a health screened exercise for over 600 residents from its project communities.
The health screening, funded by Vodafone Foundation, was done in partnership with the Divine Mother and Child Foundation.
The health screening exercise was also in collaboration with the Northern Regional Coordinating Council, the Ghana Health Service and the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly.
The beneficiaries of the exercise also had access to consultation on their health status after the screening, as well as medication.
All the beneficiaries also had their National Health Insurance status renewed, for those whose cards had expired.
SWIDA – Ghana, as an NGO, s involve in health programs and has been partnering various stakeholders to finding solutions to the health problems of residents in its project implantation communities.
As an organization that puts women at the centre of all its activities, SWIDA – Ghana made sure through its mobilizing strategies, that more half of the beneficiaries of the screening exercise were women.
The beneficiaries of the exercise expressed gratitude to SWIDA – Ghana and its partners for coming to their aid to let them know the health problems they may have.
Some of them, especially those whose NHIS cards were renewed, indicated that but for the intervention by SWIDA – Ghana and its partners, they could not have been able to use their NHIS cards for a long time, since they cannot renew them, due to economic hardships.
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