The Mfantsiman Old Girls Association (MOGA) has held its annual National Health Walk in Accra with a call on women to go for health screening, at least yearly for early detection of diseases and prevention.
The participants took the walk through the streets of the University of Ghana, Legon campus and back to the starting point at the Legon Sports Stadium.
The event, which is on the calendar of the Association forms part of the members commitment to promoting preventive health, wellness, and community engagement.
This year’s health walk took place simultaneously across all the Regional Chapters of MOGA in Ghana and in the diaspora.
Other activities for the day included aerobic session, and free health screening provided by the St. Michael Specialist Hospital while the participants engaged in games like Ludo, oware, draft, chess, and dancing competition.
Madam Henrietta Opoku Amissah, the President of MOGA who made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said women work hard, juggling from here and there without paying attention to their health.
“So, we thought as an association it was important to come out and do this health walk; and we encourage our members not to let it be an annual event, but walking and exercising should be their lifestyle.

“Whatever we engage ourselves in we should find time or take some break to exercise and look after our health well,” she urged.
The President encouraged the members, saying, “As women we should also find time to go for health screening like the way you celebrate your birthdays. We should inculcate the discipline of having an annual health check. If you do that on your birthdays, you will not forget it.”
She said, “Mfantsiman has done a lot for us, and we need everyone to be well, healthy, and alive; continue to be resourceful so that we can continue to give back to our school.
“I want to say to all Mfantsiman old girls out there in Ghana and across the world, lets come back and build our sisterhood to become stronger as an association and support our school.
“Our school needs everyone of us, it has given us education, help us to be resilient women, so, let us help the generation that are currently in school to let them become stronger and better women than what we have become so that we can build a stronger nation, a stronger Africa, and the world at large.
Madam Roseline A. Sowah, the Headmistress of the Mfantsiman Senior High School said, “Health is wealth. If you don’t have health, no amount of money can replace it.
“So, I am encouraging my sisters both old and new MOGANs to keep walking while students of this generation also do same to keep healthy, so we will be alive in everything that we do”