Save Your Liver Foundation (SLIF) in collaboration with the West Gonja Information Services Department organised a free screening exercise in the West Gonja District Capital Damongo. The exercise was an initiative of the West Gonja District Assembly.
The move was part of the Assembly's effort to equip personnel and the general public with basic information on Hepatitis 'B'. The assembly also seeks at providing continue education and free screening to the rest of the communities in the district.
Save Your Liver Foundation (SLIF) is an NGO with the purpose of sensitizing and educating the general public on the dangers of Hepatitis 'B'. They also promote people to know their status.
Aboutseventy-three (73) people made up of Assembly Staff and a cross-section of the general public wnet through the screening exercise at the District Assembly Hall. Ten(10) people representing 13.69% out of the total were infected with the virus.
Delivering a presentation under the topic "Makagbreche Mankpa" in Gonja, Meaning "My Liver My Life" Mr. Soale Alhassan a leader of the team out line numerous function of the liver. He noted that, the liver is the mother of all the organs in the body, adding that the inefficiency of the liver will replicate the malfunctioning of the other organs of the body.
He recommended intensive mass education on liver health, mass screening and vaccination on community based.
He also recommended Heptovit formula as the medication for (Positive Hepatitis 'B' cases).
The District Co-ordinating Director Mr. S.Y. Inusah advice participants to be mindful of the food they eat.
He entreated all infected persons to take their medication serious and should not see it to be the end of their world.
He as well urge those tested negative to do well and vaccinate three times yearly, since it is always better to prevent than to cure.
The group will go to Daboya and its environs for another screening.
BY ATULE REGINA AND SUMAILA HAFIZ - DAMONGO
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