“Early screening wasn’t an option for us.”He realized that education and preventative health care was lacking in many remote areas of Ghana. A few times a week, the mobile clinic and medical team travel long distances to remote communities in Ghana and provide free routine medical care. CNN Hero Osei Boateng's Hope Health Van is designed like a medical clinic for seeing and treating patients. Boateng's organization does outreach to high schools as part of its efforts to combat the stigma surrounding mental health. “Words cannot describe the feeling that you get providing care for someone who otherwise wouldn’t be alive if your mobile health van wasn’t there.”Want to get involved?

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