Volunteers give free medical service

An 11-member Volunteers in Mission team from the Annual Conference of United Methodist Church in New York in collaboration with Winneba Diocese of Methodist Church Ghana have undertaken a free medical screening exercise for over 100 people in and around Gomoa Abassa.

The volunteers made up five medical practitioners, five in construction and an engineer also painted and did construction work at the Awomberew Methodist Primary and Junior High schools.

Pastor Woody Eddins from Simsbury, Connection Methodist Church, US, and leader of the team, told the GNA that such support from Volunteers in Mission started in 2006 through the initiative of a Ghanaian, Rev Joseph Ewusie, working as Coordinator of the Annual Conference of United Methodist Church, U.K.

He said the collaboration with Winneba Diocese of Methodist Church enabled them to build a 10- classroom block, office and storage room for the school as part of their contribution to enhance teaching and learning in the area

He said two years ago the Church also partnered the Northern Diocese of Methodist Church, Ghana to construct nurses’ quarters at Yipala Docas Clinic as well as gave the habitants free medical service.

Dr. Matthew Burke said the medical service was carried in partnership with nurses at the Gomoa Abassa CHIP Compound.

He said among the disease brought before them was malaria, typhoid, high blood pressure and anemia.

Rt. Rev. Dr. Kwesi Buabeng-Odoom, Bishop of Winneba Diocese of Methodist Church Ghana, expressed appreciation to the United Methodist Conference for Volunteers in Mission for the support and expressed the hope that it would continue to put smiles on the faces of the vulnerable.