World Kidney Day 2026 – Kidney Health International Screens over 400 at Brofoyedu
To mark the 20th Anniversary of the World Kidney Day and the World Kidney Day 2026, the Kidney Health International Screened over 400 participants at the Brofoyedu community in the Atwima Kwawoma District of the Ashanti Region.
Turnout for the event was very encouraging. Participants were already seated by 5am waiting for the screening team to arrive. Being the 20th Anniversary of the World Kidney Day, the event was a special one for the organization, as such a lot of effort was put into publicity.
To achieve a successful event, over fifteen churches were visited by a team made up of the Programs Manager, Mr Sylvanus Gatorwu, the Assembly man of the community, Hon Michael Kwabena Boateng and then some volunteers of the organization.
Dr. (Med) Afonah Kweku Emmanuel and Madam Hagar Dejotey were very instrumental in this year’s program and they took on several Churches to ensure that people got to know about the screening.
They educated several Churches in the community and ensured that many people in the community who were not in Churches were reached in a House-to-House exercise that was done on some Sunday mornings prior to the screening program.
These churches enjoyed education on kidney health and why they needed to partake in getting screened for early warning signs of kidney disease. The churches coorperated with the volunteers by providing further announcements on the event.
Being a special edition of the World Kidney Day event, the was the opportunity for participants to have their EGFR checked on the spot by the Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd.
Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd. collaborated with the program to provide the service to participants.
Health Education
Community members who had gathered at the venue of the program were given a talk on kidney disease prevention. The Programs Manager, Mr. Sylvanus Gatorwu spent time to educate the participants on what the kidney do in the human body and the causes of kidney disease.
In answering their numerous questions, Mr Gatorwu took the time to explain how one could largely prevent kidney disease.
During the education, a parent whose daughter is living with kidney failure and on dialysis took some time to caution the audience and urged them to take advantage of the program to have themselves screened stressing the need for early detection.
In her stern words “my daughter is a nurse, we never anticipated any such thing, and we didn’t even notice that something was going on, she was sick and was treated, but her condition did not improve, by the time her kidneys were checked, the kidneys were already gone”
During the screening, the Founder and Director of the Kidney Health International, Prof. Elliot Kotanteng Tannor, Director and founder of the Kidney Health International also took some time to educate the teaming crowd that had gathered. He emphasised on the need to get screened and noted that “because kidney disease does not show symptoms until it is too late, it was important at people take advantage of programs like these to know the status of their kidneys”
Social Media Engagement
Before the screening, Mr. Sylvanus Gatorwu, the Programs Manager of the organization engaged audience on various social media platforms on a daily basis to provide kidney health education and also promote the screening event.
There was also health education talks on Asaase Radio and Akoma Fm, all Kumasi based Radio Stations.
Educational materials that were developed by Prof. Tannor and were shared on various social media platforms from throughout the month of March.
The Screening
The team arrived at the venue at about 7:30am, where canopies, tables and chairs were already arranged with participants patiently waiting. A public address system was also already providing music in the background to all present.
Screening of participants started around 7:50am and ended by 1:30PM
Participants were screened for hypertension, blood sugar and body mass index. Urine analysis and spot EGFR was also checked for all participants In all over 400 people were screened.
Results of the screening were then taken to one of the doctors present for consultation. Those who showed signs of some form of kidney disease were referred to the nearest facility for further medical examinations.
Sponsors
For the World Kidney Day program at Kotwi, major sponsors were Kidney Specialist Centre, Gopens Pharmacy and Roche Pharmaceuticals. Other supporting sponsors were Gilat Pharmacy, MSD Lancet Laboratories, Suprapharma, Indus Life Sciences, Til Healthcare, PharmaSymbiosis, Add Pharam, Denk Pharma and Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd who provided Spot EGFR services.
The Assemblyman of the community expressed his appreciation to the team and requested another exercise of the same magnitude for his community.
In all, a team 20 members took part in the screening program, comprising 6 doctors, and then 14 nurses and volunteers.
Mrs Comfort Osei-Agyemang, Administrator for the Kidney Health International was full of praise to the community for their massive turnout.
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Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd Team
The team of Bliss Pharma Ltd that joined the screening was made up of the following:
Dr(Pharm) Deborah Hodoli, Mr. Pottipati Suresh Babu, Madam Priya and Mr. Rupesh
