Okyeame Kwame, the “Rap Doctor” will on Saturday, lead a personal campaign to offer free Hepatitis B screening in the twin-city of Sekondi-Takoradi.
Launching the campaign in Takoradi this week, the multiple Ghana Music Awards winner said his focus will be at the Takoradi Central Market where his team will educate residents of the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis and its environs about the disease.
Okyeame Kwame said his organisation, the Okyeame Kwame Foundation, an NGO, is embarking on screening, education and counselling in collaboration with Radio Maxx, a local FM Station in Takoradi.He said he was alarmed by the fact that Hepatitis B was one of the major health problems and one of the nine most deadly diseases in the world.
Okyeame Kwame said the situation where people go to the health facilities to seek cure for their ailment only when they were sick should be a thing of the past. He said the time had come for us to be proactive to ensure good health to help in the development of Ghana.
He said he derives a lot of admiration from his fans, saying “If I have to maintain my market share in the music industry, I also have an equal responsibility to ensure a healthy society since the strength of a nation lies in the health of the citizenry.”
The Chief Executive Officer of Radio Maxx, Mr Kwame Adu Mante disclosed that other artists on the campaign trail will include Bradez and Andy of Mentor one fame.
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