The Ghana Medical Relief (GMR), a non-profit humanitarian organisation, has set out to provide free medical care to 10,000 residents of Berekum and surrounding communities in the Bono Region.

The 2025 Medical Outreach Mission has mobilised 110 volunteers, comprising various medical professionals in the United States and Ghana to contribute to quality healthcare delivery in underserved communities.

This year’s mission will take place from Monday, July 21, to Friday, July 25, 2025.

The mission will deliver essential healthcare services, including general medicine, paediatrics, dental care and urology.

Other services are obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, health education, and the provision of free medications to beneficiaries.

Speaking to journalists at the opening of the Mission in Accra, Dr Samuel Kwapong Owusu, President of the GMR, said the Mission would also provide free Health Insurance registration for patients with chronic medical problems.

He stated that through the Mission, the volunteers had reached out to thousands of patients in remote communities, many of whom had never seen a healthcare provider ever in their lives and mainly relied on preventive healthcare.

“The goal is to get to Berekum and screen as many people as we can and provide services in that community. One of the most common things we see with these missions is complete lack of medical care.

“So, the idea is for people to be seeing their physicians and providers regularly and not wait until when they get sick,” Dr Owusu said.

The GMR appealed to local institutions to support the Mission to expand their reach to benefit more patients in remote communities who need quality healthcare.

Dr Owusu said the goal of the Mission was to set up screening centres in the communities as part of its sustainability plan to support preventive healthcare.

“At GMR, when we screen these patients, they go to the pharmacy, and we start them with sample-free prescriptions. And anyone who has chronic medical problems, they get insurance on the spot,” he said.

Since 2018, the GMR has successfully conducted similar medical missions in communities such as Asiakwa, Anomabo, Atibie, Agogo, Tamale, and Bortianor.

The Organisation’s most recent mission in Bortianor in July 2024 served more than 5,200 patients and supported NHIS registration for 2,500 individuals.

The Mission is entirely driven by volunteers and supported through donations from generous individuals and institutions.

The organisation and its partners seek to directly contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.