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Country: Ghana
City: Accra
Type: Testing and Screening Vaccination

Okyeame Kwame Goes to Tamale to Screen 1200 for Hepatitis B

Multiple award-winning hiplife artiste, Okyeame Kwame, aka Kwame Nsiah-Apau, ?? set t? drop a single ?n Hepatitis B soon th?? year – b?t n?t until h? h?? f?n??h?? h?? business ?t th? Chief’s Palace ?n Tamale. Come th?? Saturday, February 25, th? rapper ?n? h?? team ?f dedicated medical personnel fr?m MDS-Lancet Laboratory ?n Accra w???? pitch camp ?t th? palace ?f th? Chief ?f Tamale, Dakpema Dawuni Abdulai.

Th??r mission w???? b? t? screen ?n estimated 1,200 Ghanaians free-?f-charge, ?? ??rt ?f th? nationwide Hepatitis B screening ?t?rt?? last year b? th? Okyeame Kwame Hepatitis B Foundation ?n? supported b? th? MTN-Ghana Foundation.

Okyeame Kwame, wh? t??? th?? ?n Monday, ???? h?? foundation h?? ?? far screened ?b??t 38,000 Ghanaians. Last year, th? Okyeame Kwame Hepatitis B Foundation organized free Hepatitis B campaigns – including education ?n? screenings – ?n ??m? ??rt? ?f th? people.

In ???, ?b??t 38,000 Ghanaians benefited fr?m free medical attention ?n? screening ?t events held ?t th? British Council Hall ?n? Kwame Nkrumah Circle (?n Accra), Prempeh Assembly Hall, KNUST Campus ?n? Ayigya Taxi Rank (?n Kumasi), th? Methodist Church ?t Nkawkaw (Eastern region), ?n? th? Market Circle ?t Takoradi (Western Region), ?m?ng others.

Th? forthcoming Tamale screening w???? hopefully register th? needed patronage.
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Okyeame Kwame ????: “B?????? m? overall target ?? t? screen 50,000 Ghanaians ?n th? small term, ?n? I ?m hoping th?t w? reach th?t figure ?n Tamale.

“Th??, therefore, means th?t w?'re going t? hopefully screen 1,200 ?t th? Chief’s Palace ?n Tamale, ?? I entreat everybody, including women ?n? children t? come th?r? ?n th??r numbers,” h? ????.

H? ???r?f??? th?t apart fr?m th? support th?t h?? Hepatitis B foundation enjoys fr?m MTN-Ghana Foundation ?n? MDS Lancet Laboratory, th? free screening drive ???? secures funding through proceeds fr?m th? sale ?f h?? album – Th? Clinic.

“A? I h??? ????, 20 per cent ?f th? sales I m?k? fr?m m? album goes ?nt? th? free Hepatitis screening, ?? ?f ??? patronize m? album, ???'re supporting a ???????nt cause,” Okyeame Kwame sent words ?f gratitude t? Coca Cola “f?r supporting ?? w?th drinks t? refresh everybody w? screen,” ?? well ?? Radio Zal ?n? Northern Star radio, ??? ?n Tamale.

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