Blood and Genotype Awareness Foundation-Ghana(BGAF-G) led by Dr Brown Osei Konadu has been awarded Ghana’s Best Health Foundation of the year 2018.
BGAF-G won the award for its immense contribution to Ghana’s business culture, society and humanity at large which has helped the health and growth of persons and the economy.
The Confederation Of Governance Assessment Institute(COGAI) through its subsidiary organization, Economic Monitoring Corporation Of Africa (EMCOA) which is the selection committee for COGAI’s Pan-African Top Brands Eminence Awards, in partnership with the Trade and Industry Ministry of Ghana organised the awards ceremony in Accra at which Blood and Genotype Awareness Foundation-Ghana(BGAF-G) received the Pan-African Top Brands Eminence Awards’ award in the health category.
Being the Best Health Foundation in Ghana for the year 2018, Blood and Genotype Awareness Foundation-Ghana(BGAF-G), according to the organizers of the awards ceremony, observed maximum Compliance, Standard Practice, Customer Care, Customer Relations, Achievements, Product/Service Availability, Brand/Service Quality, Packaging, Relevance and Affordability during the year under consideration.
Several indigenous companies across the country also received various awards under different categories.
In an exclusive interview with President of Blood and Genotype Awareness Foundation-Ghana, Dr Brown Osei Konadu, he called for intensive awareness creation and sensitization programmes across the country to end sickle cells in the year 2030.
He indicated that his foundation has since its inception committed itself to supporting sickle cell patients with drugs, right food and counsel on better life style to make them strong and live longer.
Dr Brown Osei Konadu added that his Blood and Genotype Awareness Foundation-Ghana has been organizing sensitization programmes for religious organizations, schools and communities as well as small and big associations and clubs on Sickle Cell and Blood Groups and Genotypes. So far, Dr Konadu says BGAF-G has organised such programmes for over six hundred groups across the length and breadth of the country.
He charged prospective couples to deem knowing their genotypes a vital step to take before finally agreeing to tie the knot as the main cause of the disease has been offspring inheriting faulty genes from parents.
Dr. Brown charged Pastors and other religious leaders in charge of marriage as well as marriage counsellors to consider advising people planning marriages to find out about their genotypes first.
Leader of Ghana’s leading Sickle Cell advocacy foundation, BGAF-G advised Ghanaians to burn out the misconception that Sickle Cell is caused by witches and wizards, urging them to go to the hospital for the diagnosis and management of the condition to save the lives of Sickle patients.
Dr. Brown again called on the government to take the fight against Sickle Cell a serious matter, especially, supporting foundations of his kind to sensitise the citizenry on how to prevent the condition and the best ways to manage themselves. This, he believes would save government a lot of money spent on buying and importing folic acid and other medications for Sickle Cell patients.
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Source: BGAF-G