Tamale residents educated on sickle cell condition

The Sickle Cell Condition Advocates (SICCA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) has held a day’s awareness programme on sickle cell condition for residents of Tamale.

The programme, which took place at the weekend in Tamale, was to educate the residence on the existence of the condition, how it is spread and what to do to prevent its spread.

It was also used to donate blood to stock the blood bank of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.

Madam Charlotte Owusu, Founder of SICCA, said the awareness programme became necessary because of the increasing rate at which the condition was spreading among Ghanaians.

Madam Owusu said the condition was genetic and had no cure adding it was therefore important for people to know their status before getting into long-term relationships.

She said SICCA was embarking on the programme following a Memorandum of Understanding it signed with MOH to take up a Sickle Cell Advocacy programme to cover the whole country beginning with the three northern regions.

She said that “SICCA will be spending three months doing this project in the three northern regions” and would later move to the remaining seven regions to continue with the programme.

Source: GNA