Sankore (C/R), Feb. 3, GNA - The Ghana Baptist

Convention in collaboration with a team of medical officers

from the United States of America and Canada are undertaking

surgical operation and also offering medical service to about

2000 needy patients in the Central and Western Regions. The 16-member medical team made up of surgical

specialists, doctors, nurses and evangelists are performing

operating on patients with hernia, and providing health services

to those with hypertension, diabetes and other ailments at the

Ghana Baptist Convention Clinic at Sankore. Mr Jarvis Djokoto, Director of the Ghana Baptist

Convention, responsible for Socio-Economic and Relief

Service, told the Ghana News Agency in a telephone

conversation at Winneba after the medical team had

successfully performed operations and provided treatment for

other patients at Sankor, a suburb of Winneba. He said the exercise with its foreign partners known, as

"Fisher of Men Ministry" in US and Canada was part of the

Convention's social responsibilities. Mr Djokoto said some patients had already been operated

upon while others received treatment for hypertension and

diabetes at Senya Beraku and Kweikrom in the Central Region. He said the team would also go to Begoso and Tarkwa in the

Western Region to provide similar services before the end of

their two weeks stay in the Ghana. He said the exercise would cost the Convention and the team

about 100,000 US dollars but that the patients were being made

to pay a very moderate fee to enable them to receive the

assistance. Mr Djokoto said the treatment would not be given to only

members of the Baptist Convention but also to everyone who

would need assistance. Rev Kojo Amo, General Secretary of the Baptists

Convention expressed the church's gratitude to the medical

team for offering health delivery service to Ghanaians at very

affordable cost.