PMC celebrates fourth anniversary with free health screening 

Lawrencia Akoto Frempong

The Pleasant Medical Centre (PMC) has celebrated its fourth anniversary of service with a series of free health screenings for the people of the Ashaiman municipality and its environs.

The health centre collaborated with the MSN Private Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, to provide free blood sugar tests, uric acid tests, lipid panels (cholesterol tests) and checking of body mass index for clients.

Mr Aaron Mensah, the Operations Manager of PMC, noted that the centre was proud to celebrate its fourth-year anniversary of delivering healthcare and touching the lives of clients within the Ashaiman municipality and the country as a whole.

He mentioned that the anniversary marked a milestone for the facility; therefore, they organised free health screening activities to give back to the community they operate from as part of their corporate social responsibility.

According to him, over the past four years, they have been organising free surgeries for their clients and customers within and outside the Ashaiman municipality while hoping to do more in the years to come.

Miss Samuella Adobea Akuffo, the medical representative of the MSN Private Laboratories, noted that the company manufactures drugs and therefore found it important to partner with PMC to provide the free screening and medication to the community.

She said one of the main focuses of the screening was to examine their clients of the diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) camp, which was done for sensitivity, as many patients often complained about neuropathy, “which is the tingling, burning pain sensation; chronic lower back pain; and numbness either in their feet or palms, which the DPN detects before the symptoms show.

Miss Akuffo added that the causes of DPN usually occur due to one’s own lifestyle or through an accident, but early detection would prevent patients from having severe pains or symptoms.

She also reiterated that as part of the screening, the MSN and PMC were creating an awareness of the lipid panel, known as cholesterol, and revealed that most diabetic patients were prone to having bad cholesterol levels.

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