Teacher who loses three friends to breast cancer urges deepened education on the disease

A teacher of the Holy Trinity Cathedral Senior High School (HOTCASS) in Accra has called for deepened education on breast cancer after losing three friends to the disease.

In an emotional video, Winfred Amago said he lost a former classmate and other two friends who were battling breast cancer.

“I have actually lost three females. One was a classmate. The other one was a friend. She also died of breast cancer and the third one; I just heard the news in the evening. She was from my hometown. She also died through breast cancer,” he said.

According to Mr. Amago, many of these individuals lose their lives because of ignorance of the disease. He feels not much attention is being paid to the dreaded ailment, which is taking away loved ones.

“I think the education is not going down well or we are taking things for granted and that is why it is happening so,” he observed.

Mr. Amago thanked Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) for its efforts to fight the disease fiercely and urged the general public to support the initiative to save lives.

“Meena Breast Cancer Foundation, we are very grateful. I will urge everyone to go for the screening. It is better you screen and you are free than you go very late and you have to die,” he advised.

A total of two hundred and ten students of HOTCASS were screened for breast cancer with four suspected cases.

The school is the eleventh educational institution MBCF has visited since its establishment in 2022.

Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) has been on the ground each day sensitizing, screening, and searching for breast cancer victims to support their treatment.

It was established on the vision of the late Amina Oppong Kwarteng, the late wife of Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng who sadly succumbed to the disease in 2022.

It is currently constructing a Breast Cancer Centre at Potsin in the Central Region.