Daily Heritage November 17

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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017
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WORLD
Kenya court to rule
on presidential
election cases on
Monday
POLITICS
CDD-Ghana trains
22 volunteers
BUSINESS
PG.04
Bosch to support
manufactures in
Ghana
SPORTS
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Sports administrators
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PG.15
Life expectancy in
Ghana drops to 60yrs
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
LACK OF regular
hospital visits for
medical check-up
has reduced life expectancy
in Ghana
from 70 years to
60. This is according to the
Medical Director of Barnor
Memorial Hospital, Dr Mrs
Aramansah Forjoe Barnor.
According to her, unlike
Europe and China where sicknesses
are detected at the first
stage, Ghanaians’ lack of regular
hospital visits makes it
difficult to detect their medical
conditions, especially at
deteriorating stages.
Dr Mrs Barnor made this
known to the DAILY
HERITAGE in Accra after
her outfit had organised a-
two-day health screening exercise
for spare parts dealers at
Abossey Okai where over
1,000 men, women and children
were screened.
She said “life expectancy in
this side of the world is 60-
65, in Europe you are looking
at 75 years and above, in
China it’s about 80-85 years.
Why are they living longer
than us, it is because we don’t
bother to undertake regular
check-ups.”
Dr Barnor added that, in
Europe for instance, “you
never see a condition progress
from the first stage. If somebody
develops a cancer, it is
detected early and treated, but
in Ghana we probably would
see it at stage three or four.
“This is because, the outside
world values lives and do
regular check-ups at the hospital
and so their conditions
are picked at early stages for
prompt attention.”
1,000 screened
The hospital, as part of its
Corporate Social Responsibility,
screened over 1,000 spare
parts dealers at Abossey Okai
in Accra as part of its annual
free health screening in the
community they operate in.
According to Dr Barnor,
this year’s exercise was reviewed
because they had realised
that when it was organised
in the hospital premises,
the same people attended
every time.
She said,
“these people
have a
stressful
life, their
stress
levels are
high; inability
to
sleep at
night and
•A section of the participants being screened
INSET: Dr Mrs Aramansah Barnor, Medical Director of Barnor Memorial Hospital
the financial challenges and
high blood pressure.
“This is something we do
on yearly basis because
when my
father died, I
decided that
as part of
our Corporate
Social
Responsibility,
we
should
hold free
screening
every year for
the community.
“We realised
that, if we do the free
screening at the hospital
premises like we usually do, it
is the same people who keep
coming every year and so we
decided that, at Abossey Okai,
we have a lot of people who
do self-medication and it becomes
too late, especially
those who have hypertension
and diabetes.”
The participants were
screened for malaria and hypertension
among others.