{"id":69648,"date":"2016-05-11T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/u-s-embassy-health-fair-collects-53-units-for-national-blood-bank\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:32:34","slug":"u-s-embassy-health-fair-collects-53-units-for-national-blood-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-embassy-health-fair-collects-53-units-for-national-blood-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Health Fair collects 53 units for National Blood Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    ACCRA, Ghana, May 11, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy hosted its 8th Annual Health Fair for employees and their families on May 5 under the theme \u201cGood Health Adds Life to Years.\u201d The Embassy\u2019s health unit welcomed health care providers from hospitals and clinics to the premises to offer screenings and health education. More than 360 employees and their spouses took advantage of services to prevent and diagnose health concerns such as hypertension, cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, nutrition, HIV\/AIDS and malaria, as well as eye and dental exams.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>As part of the Fair, employees were also given the opportunity to donate blood to the National Blood Bank. Fifty-three life-saving units were collected over the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Embassy is directly and indirectly responsible for the health and well-being of more than 1,000 employees and their families,\u201d said the Embassy\u2019s regional medical officer, Dr. Kelly Briden. \u201cAs an embassy, we\u2019re working closely with the government of Ghana to improve health services and systems across the country. We\u2019re just as committed to ensuring the health of our own staff. We all want to live long lives; attending to our medical needs helps to ensure long, healthy and productive lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Participating health care providers included:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Lister Hospital<br \/>\nNyaho Medical Center<br \/>\nRobert and Sons Optical<br \/>\nNational Blood Bank<br \/>\nKorle Bu &#8211; CTU<br \/>\nPfizer Global Pharmaceutical<br \/>\nCJ Medicare Hospital<br \/>\nHealth Link<br \/>\nReach for Recovery<br \/>\nThe Brain Clinic Ltd<br \/>\nAkai House Clinic<br \/>\nAmasha Partners<br \/>\nCharisma Dental<br \/>\nHoly Trinity Medical Center\/ Spa<br \/>\nMDS Lancet Lab.<br \/>\nPLWHA<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy Health Fair is organized annually to promote good health, offer health education, screen for disease, and offer preventive measures for diseases affecting the population.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCRA, Ghana, May 11, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The U.S. Embassy hosted its 8th Annual Health Fair for employees and their families on May 5 under the theme \u201cGood Health Adds Life to Years.\u201d The Embassy\u2019s health unit welcomed health care providers from hospitals and clinics to the premises to offer screenings and health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-69648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}