Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences (KCOHAS), has held its spectacular ‘Health Week’ 2024 with a memorable grand durbar.
Health Week is an occasion set aside every year to focus on and review the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in line with happenings in Ghanaian society and proffer solutions to make an impact.
Founder of Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor Philip Narteh Gorleku, emphasised that one of KCOHAS’s core values is community service, hence the occasion is an opportunity to engage the community through health screening and cleaning of the environment.
“We cleaned our whole area and then went on a health walk followed by other health activities and finally the free health screening. We screened the whole community free of charge for various health disease conditions.
“Afterwards, we advised them on how to maintain good health. Klintaps is the only privately owned university college that specialises in the training of health professionals. This means that we have not diluted our programmes with any non-health programmes,” he said.
The college runs six accredited programmes – Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Radiography, Medical Laboratory Science, Community Nutrition and Dietetics, and Ophthalmic Dispensing.
“We currently have a state-of-the-art diagnostic centre at Klagon where we are located, so we give subsidised diagnostic services in all the areas accredited programmes that we run to the community. We are impacting and supporting society in every possible way within our capacity,” the Founder added.
Representing the Minister of Health, Faustina Excel Adipa, commended Klintaps College for its commitment to health education and its role in promoting the well-being of the community.
She highlighted the college’s accreditation and affiliation with the University of Cape Coast as a testament to its quality education.
The Minister’s statement addressed the issue of malnutrition in Ghana, citing statistics from the Ghana Demographic Health Survey (GDHS 2022) to emphasize the prevalence of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity.
She disclosed the government’s efforts to combat malnutrition through various initiatives, including the national nutrition policy, scaling up nutrition movement, maternal and child health and nutrition programme, school feeding programme, and fortification of staple foods.
She emphasized the need for multi-sectoral collaboration to address the challenges of malnutrition and improve health outcomes in Ghana.
She urged Klintaps College to continue its efforts in promoting health and well-being and to support the government’s initiatives to improve the health of the nation.
Also present at the grand durbar were Prof. Harold Amonoo-Kuofi; Prof. Paul Amuna; Prof. Fred N. Binka, Dean of School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS); Major General William Omane Agyekum, Rtd; Head of the Governing Council-KCOHAS); Farouk Alhassan, Representative of the Acting Registrar for Allied Health Professional Council.
