By Benjamin Akoto
Adantia, (Bono), Feb. 21, GNA – More than 150 cocoa farmers in the Adantia and Kwatre communities in the Sunyani West municipality of the Bono Region have undergone screening to know their various health conditions.
The Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo Regional Office of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in collaboration with the Sunyani Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital conducted the free health screening exercise.
Beneficiaries mostly women were screened for high blood pressure, sugar levels, hypertension, and Body Mass Index.
Some of them also went through eye, ear and throat and HIV tests.
In an interview with the media on the sidelines of the screening exercise, Mr Kwame Adutwum, the Nutrition Officer at the SDA Hospital, recommended the need for everybody to undergo periodic screening to know their health conditions.
He said beneficiaries with high blood pressure and elevated sugar levels were referred to seek further medication at the nearest health facilities.
Mr Michael Asumanu, the Administrator of COCOBOD in Sunyani also told the GNA that said the exercise was to lessen the burdens some of the farmers went through in accessing healthcare delivery.
One of the beneficiaries, Madam Rosena Ajubi, a cocoa farmer, expressed appreciation to the COCOBOD for the exercise and prayed it would be organised periodically to better the health condition of the farmers.
GNA