Women of Otwekwa educated, screened for breast cancer

Women of Otwekwa within the Agona Swedru Municipality in the Central Region have been educated and screened for breast cancer.

Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) put together the exercise as it intensifies the fight against breast cancer.

Women in Otwekwa turned up in their numbers to undertake the exercise.

Nurses from the Tema General Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital entreated the women to disregard the myths about the disease.

“We know most of you did not want to come for the screening because you have been made to believe that if you are detected to have breast cancer, you will die the following day. It is false. Your life would rather be saved if the disease is detected early,” a nurse from the General Hospital, Dorothy Yirenkyi said.

The nurses urged the women to seek medical attention instead of resorting to self-treatment or going to prayer camps.

“Instead of going to the hospital some of you would go to prayer camps where the disease would worsen. By the time you would consider seeking medical care it would have been too late,” the worried nurses said.

No case of breast cancer was recorded during the screening.

Communities, religious bodies, and schools have benefited from Meena Breast Cancer Foundation’s (MBCF) education and breast cancer screening.

About ten thousand women have been engaged so far.

MBCF was established a year ago to complement the government’s effort in fighting breast.

By Rudolph Nandi