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Regional News of Thursday, 26 February 2004

Source: GNA

Grace Baptist Mission inaugurates Clinic at Kpadjai

Kpadjai (N/R), Feb. 26, GNA- A clinic established by the Grace Baptist Mission-Ghana, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in the East Gonja District in the Northern Region has been inaugurated at Kpadjai. Reverend Noah Quarshie, Director of the Mission who performed the ceremony, said the purpose of the clinic was offer healthcare service to the people.

Rev. Quarshie said last year the Mission provided about 200 people at Kpadjai and its surrounding villages with free medical care for malaria, worms, river blindness, high blood pressure (BP), skin diseases and dehydration.

Chief of Kpadjai, Nana Kru Wei II, expressed his appreciation to the Mission for the project, and said "Kpadjai is far from Salaga and to carry the sick on bicycles to the hospital at Salaga is a big problem".