Deduako residents, pets benefit from health screening by KNUST Health Sciences Students Association
Residents of Deduako in the Oforikrom municipality of the Ashanti region and their pets have benefitted from a health outreach by the KNUST Health Sciences Students Association (HESA-KNUST).
The exercise which is part of the association’s fifth anniversary brought students from various departments together to provide free health care services.
Students from Ghana Association of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Medical laboratory medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, and Veterinary departments were featured in this outreach.
Others are the Ghana Pharmaceutical Students Association, Ghana Association of Diagnostic Medical Imaging, Ghana Herbal Medicine Student Association, and Physician Assistant Student Association of Ghana.
It was under the theme: “One health, one medicine”.
Beneficiaries were screened of various conditions whiles their pets, in collaboration with the Animal Welfare League, were vaccinated against rabies.
Placards bearing pieces of one health advice were also on display.
The one health initiative is to ensure the health of human beings, animals, and the environment.
“As part of our social responsibility, we decided to champion this one health outreach where every department plays a role,” said President of HESA-KNUST, Kwame Adu Okyere Boadu.
