40-year-old Cornelia Avenu’s business has died as a result of the high cost of treating breast cancer, which has attacked her right breast.
Though she detected it early, she still has to pay close to Five Thousand Ghana cedis every week for Chemotherapy.
“A session of Chemotherapy costs One Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Ghana cedis and I undergo it four sessions in a week,” she told crimecheckghana.org.
According to her, the cost is weighing her down and therefore has not been able to revive her collapsed business.
This she said has made life unbearable for her.
“I was ejected from where my shop was situated and efforts to rent a new place have been difficult,” she said.
Narrating how the disease began, she said she felt a boil in her right breast but thought it was an infection. Avenu said she used a self-prescribed medication but the boil grew worst.
“I decided to do some medical scans at the Kotoku hospital at Adjen Kotoku in Accra where it was revealed that it was cancer,” she recounted.
Avenu said she underwent surgery to remove the boil at a cost of Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ghana cedis.
She recounts that she was referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to continue with Chemotherapy treatment, which she had been struggling to afford.
“I started the treatment in January 2023 but I can no longer afford it,” she complained.
Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) assisted her with Six Hundred Ghana cedis when she visited its offices.
MBCF is carrying-out sensitization year-round on the need to seek early treatment.
Many breast cancer patients are receiving support to undergo treatments because MBCF is bent on reducing deaths associated with the disease.
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