Accra, Nov. 3, GNA- The Chiropractic and Wellness Centre (CWC), has launched a new product, "the Corporate Wellness Programme", to help improve the health of employees of corporate organisations. It would not only reduce sick leave and use of health benefits, but improve employee morale and loyalty, increase productivity and reduce medical claims of employees.

Dr. Marcus Manns, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CWC, Ghana, said true wellness could not exist without chiropractic, which was a practice based on principles that provided the body an opportunity and the right nurturing to healing.

He explained that the body's nervous system, a major engine for expressing the bodies' full potential, when compromised as a result of stress and other bacterial and viral infections, prevented the proper expression of life, vitality, health, healing, well-being and wellness. Dr. Manns pointed out that chiropractic care utilised latest techniques including massage therapy, exercising, nutritional direction and other cutting edge technology to remove interferences in the nervous system and ensure the highest degree of wellness as possible.

He advocated for a wellness revolution not only among corporate organisations but the entire Ghanaian community to enhance life expectancy rate that was gradually reducing due to the current poor state of health of many people.

Dr. Manns said under the workplace wellness programme, CWC would hold quarterly corporate wellness workshops on topics including advancing strategies to adapt to stress, workstation exercises and boosting the immune system.

He said personal e-weekly mentoring subscription would also be offered to employees under the programme, for one-on-one counselling, all geared towards building on an improved employee wellness culture. Dr. Manns noted that CWC had also instituted the Practice Member Award for individuals and organisations that would excel and loyal to its programmes throughout the year.

Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor, Minister of Health-designate commended CWC for the innovative support to health care delivery in the country and targeting the executive class.

He noted that chiropractic practice was being considered for mainstream health care delivery under the Ministry's Quality Assurance Policy on training and practice of complementary health practitioners. "In line with this programme, the chiropractic medical practitioner would be the primary contact practitioner to collaborate and ensure the optimum functioning of the body by relieving interferences in nerve function and transmission of vital messages in the body," he said. However, Dr. Kumbuor said as much as complementary alternative medicine was being promoted, it was also important to acknowledge the role of western medicine in corrective surgery, neurology, cardiology, diagnostic techniques and in responding to emergencies.

"Chiropractic practice must therefore be seen to be referring appropriately to neurologists and orthopaedic specialists and receiving same from their bio-medical counterparts," he said.

Dr. Kumbuor said guidelines for regulatory control of all wellness Spas and Complementary Alternative Medicine practices by MOH were being rolled-out for implementation adding, the Board of the Regulatory Council would soon be inaugurated to enable the Registry for Complementary medicine become fully operational.

He urged corporate institutions to sign on to the programme to enable their employees benefit from it fully to help raise Ghana's per-capita income. 3 Nov. 09