PROFILE OF MEDICAID GHANA www.medicaidghana.org Contact Address Onipanua Hukporty Derrick (Founder/Executive Director) Box 1056, Cape Coast Ghana/West Africa Email: [email protected] [email protected] Telephone number: 0303960352 +233243919266 / +233209797010 PROFILE OF MEDICAID GHANA MEDICAID Ghana is a registered charity and non-profit making organization made up of exuberant health professionals, whose ultimate goal is to provide preventive and community based health care to the people of Ghana under the companies code of the Registrar Generals Department of Ghana ACT 1963 ACT 179. Our topmost priority is to provide humanitarian services in the area of health and education to communities deprived of such social amenities. Our major aim is to enhance the quality of life through a structured intervention and advocacy programs that offer opportunities for people to live healthy in the community. Head Office at Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana MOTTO/SLOGAN: Building healthier lives VISION To become a world class non-governmental organization that seeks to establish a healthy society in the world in terms of excellent physical and mental health and accessibility to healthcare thereby reducing the average mortality rate of the people to the minimum. MISSION To assist individuals and communities to get interested and actively participate in the maintenance of their health in order to have healthier lives. AIMS & OBJECTIVES To embark on an educative health promotion campaign to the masses on the preventive measure of prevalent health conditions. To help improve the state of nutrition, housing, sanitation, recreation, Economic or working conditions and other aspects of environmental Hygiene. To foster activities in the field of mental health, especially those affecting the harmony of human relations. To reduce the incidence of malaria cases in Ghana. To promote and conduct research in the field of health. To promote maternal and child health and welfare and to foster the ability to live harmoniously in a changing total environment To provide information, counsel and assistance in the field of health. To promote improved standards of teaching and training in the health, Medical and related professions. To assist in developing an informed public opinion among all peoples on matters of health. To assist Governments, upon request, in strengthening health services. To stimulate and advance work to eradicate epidemic, endemic and other diseases. To promote, in co-operation with other specialized agencies where necessary, the prevention of accidental injuries. Our services The organization engages itself in the following activities; 1. Medical Screening 2. Youth empowerment 3. Blood donation exercises 4. Health Education/Health Talk 5. Conducting research in the medical field. 6. Advocacy roles in health 7. Free provision and distribution of mosquito nets 8. Sexual reproductive health 9. Maternal and child health 10. Health consultation and counseling SUCCESFUL PROJECTS 1. Collaborated with National diabetes association to organize National S.H.S Diabetes screening project (CENTRAL REGION PHASE). 2. National campaign against drug and alcohol which was piloted in komenda Edina Egyafo Abrem municipal assembly. 3. Assisted some selected youth to acquire some vocational/entrepreneurial skills to help alleviate poverty. Skills include Kente weaving, Baking and pastries making, Wielding and Fabrication, etc. 4.Free 1000 mosquito nets distribution to pregnant women and children in Abrem Agona villages. 5.Hepatitis B screening and vaccination for some churches in Sunyani including Global Evangelical ministries. 6. Free medical screening among the elderly in some communities including cape coast, Ntranoa, Simew, Abee, Assin Anyinabrim. 7. Education on Ebola virus in some selected basic schools in cape coast and its villages. 8. Workshop all nursing students in western region on the topic “THE NURSE, THE PATIENT AND THE LAW”. 9. Organized quiz competition & debate for all Nursing & Midwifery schools in Western & Central region. 10. Organized Blood donation exercise for students of Cape Coast Nursing & Midwifery Training College and other schools. 10. Provision of books and school uniforms to some needed students of Ankaful M /A Primary School. 11. Donation to Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital. CURRENT PROJECTS 1. Community outreach projects to identify and treat early ailments. The project is in a form of education and screening exercises. We identify remote areas to have this project. Our screenings are mostly on breast cancer for women, hypertension malaria screening for children and pregnant women, syphilis screening for sexually active young children, diabetes and hypertension screening. 2. Collaboration with National Diabetes Association to organize National S.H.S Free Diabetes screening project (GREATER ACCRA REGION PHASE). 20 senior high schools will be screened. 3. Collaborating with Community Psychiatric Unit of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital to organize community durbar in some communities in central region to educate on some mental health related topics. 4. Second phase of Mosquito nets distribution to 10 selected communities in Ghana. BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1. Mrs. Gifty Nyomi – Chairperson CEO of Coastal television 2. Dr. Ignatius Sirikyi –Vice Chairperson Senior Medical Officer at University of Cape Coast Hospital 3. Nana Abraham Ato Arhinful – member CEO of Naatoa Group of Companies 4. Mrs. Elizabeth Esi Denyoh – Member President of National Diabetes Association 5. Elder Ernest Sarfo Gyan - member Nurse Anesthetist at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and also the Zonal President of Nurses Christian Fellowship (western and central zone). 6. Mr. Emmanuel Atakorah - member Community Psychiatric Officer at Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital 7. Miss Joycelyn Akotey – member Tutor at Psychiatric Nursing Training College, Ankaful 8. Mr. Sono Boateng –member Manager of Capital Hill Hotel, Cape Coast 9. Mr. Matthew Ahwireng-member Regional Health promotion Officer, Central Regional Health Directorate .