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In an effort to share the progress of the adolescent health check-up programme, Dr. Franklin Glozah, the Deputy country lead of Y-Check Ghana and also a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, expressed his appreciation for the support received during the implementation phase of the project.
Speaking at the Implementation Progress Meeting with the Y-Check Community Advisory Board (CAB) and Local Stakeholders, on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at the Capital Hill Hotel in Cape Coast, he expressed his elation at being able to screen 2001 adolescents in some selected communities, Senior High Schools and Basic Schools within the Cape Coast metropolis on important health conditions.
Further, he underscored that the project is in its 4-month follow-up phase seeking to ascertain how the 2001 adolescents screened during the implementation phase are faring after 4-months of participating in the screening progrmame. “To reassess their health conditions 4 months after screening, treatment, and referrals”.
So far, it’s been positive”, he stated, “appealing to parents, teachers, and community members to encourage adolescents who participated in the Y-Check implementation to turn up for the follow-up screening”, stressed Dr. Glozah.
He expressed optimism about achieving desired results as the follow-up stage progresses.
Regarding challenges, the Senior Lecturer outlined that the main challenges with the follow-up screening has had to do with reaching all 300 adolescents from the communities (Efutu, Ekon, Amamoma, Abura and Apewosika) to follow up. It has been quite challenging, screening about 10 adolescents in a day, instead of 30 to 35 in a day.
According to Dr. Glozah, this has slowed the pace and prolonged the process. “We encourage parents, guardians, and the adolescents themselves who participated in the implementation to come for the follow-up,” he concluded.
Other Y-Check Investigators and staff who were present at the implementation progress meeting were Prof. Evans Agbeno, Dr. Eric Koka, Dr. Kenneth Adde, Miss Abigail Abban, Mr Meshack Kweku Davies and Miss Christabel Ampofo.
