German Medical team calls on Nyakrom Omanhene

Agona Nyakrom (C/R), April 19, GNA - A ten-member medical team from a non-Governmental Organization in Germany, has paid a courtesy call on the Omanhene of the Agona Nyakrom Traditional Area, Nana Okofo Katakyi Nyakoh Eku X, to formally announced their arrival in the Agona district of the Central Region.

The Specialists from the NGO, Pro Interplast Germany, arrived in the country on Saturday for a two-week stay in the district. The team made up of five surgical specialists and five nurses will engage in orthopaedic, plastic, hand and general surgery using the facilities of the District Hospital at Agona Swedru.

Ailments that the team would work on include hole in lips, multiple fingers and horse like legs.

Other areas are burn complications, wounds, accidents problems and fingers and joint bony deformities.

They would also treat deformities either from birth, disease or accident resulting in impaired gait and all types of swellings on the body including goitre and hernia.

Addressing them, Nana Eku, commended the team and their counterpart in Ghana for their "fellow feeling" for the people in the District. He praised Mrs Ama Rose Boateng, Director Pro Interplast Ghana, for the presence of the team and said the Nyakrom Traditional Council would soon honour her for meritorious services to society.

Nana Eku also praised Mr Joe Appeah, a Management Consultant, for the presence of the team in the district to offer services to the people.

Dr Kwadwo Sekyi-Appiah, District Director of Health Services, said aliments the specialists would treat in the two weeks period could only be done at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast.

He appealed to traditional rulers, assembly members and opinion leaders in the district to encourage people to patronise the programme. Mr Ben Mensah, Agona District Chief Executive, said the Assembly would "pick the cost" of the two-week programme to ensure that people patronised the programme. He called on parents to take advantage of the opportunity to ensure treatment to enable them and their children to undertake their businesses and studies.

Mrs Boateng said she formed the NGO after her 15-year stay in Germany. She commended Mr Appeah, who is a member of the District Assembly, who made it possible for the team's arrival in the district to provide such health care. Mr Samuel Kweku Obodai, MP for Agona West, urged the people not allow middlemen to extort money from them for the services of the team and cautioned the people from doing anything that could disrupt the programme. He said everything would be done to bring the team to the district next year.