Free Medic Care For Two Farming Communities

Kwatire (B/A), Residents of two farming communities in the Brong Ahafo region are receiving free medical care under a 300 million-cedi health intervention programme being carried out by the Baptist Missionary Association of America. Under the programme, sick residents of Kwatire and Akuma, the two beneficiary communities located in the Sunyani and Nkoranza districts respectively would receive free medical attention including surgical operations. At a ceremony to usher in the five-day programme at Kwatire yesterday, Dr. Bobby Bowman, medical director of the mission, said his 22-member team would perform at least 50 operations. He disclosed that there are plans for the mission to take over the under-utilised health centre of the town for development into a hospital. Dr. Bowman expressed the hope that the mission's intervention would improve the living conditions of the inhabitants and called for their co-operation. The African director of the mission, Mr. Adu Boahene, said most of the surgical equipment and materials meant for the programme are locked up at the harbour.