Breast Cancer takes another life

After battling breast cancer for over a year, 59-year-old Esther Kwabea has given up the ghost.

Madam Kwabea would have lost her life to breast cancer in 2022 if not for the timely intervention of Crime Check Foundation (CCF) she lived on for a year.

In April 2022, the widow struggled to get medical attention because of financial difficulties when she contracted the disease.

According to her, she resorted to self-medication when the cancer, which started as a boil, burst.

She could not afford Four Hundred Ghana cedis to run diagnostic tests after she was referred by the Shai Osudoku Hospital to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.

“I was on admission at the hospital for a while but doctors told me they could not diagnose what was wrong with my breast. I thought they would have referred me to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital but they rather discharged me from the hospital and asked me to run several laboratory tests,” she said.

Esther Kwabea approached Crime Check Foundation (CCF) for support.

Since 2022, CCF continually supported Madam Kwabea under its Health Check Series to undergo treatment until Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) took over her care.

Unfortunately, she could not survive the ‘battle’ as she gave up her ghost late Monday morning.

May her soul rest in peace.

Meena Breast Cancer Foundation is a sister organization of CCF mainly meant to cater for the needs of breast cancer patients.

Inspired by the demise of Mrs. Amina Oppong Kwarteng, the late spouse of Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, it was established a year ago to complement the government’s fight against the disease.