The Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) has screened approximately ten thousand women, a year after its establishment, its Executive Director, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng has said.
Mr. Kwarteng noted that MBCF’s resolve to tackle breast cancer throughout the year to help decimate the loss of life is not just paying lip service.
“We started with Senior High Schools, and we have visited three huge schools with a population of about three thousand to four thousand. Apart from that, we have been to communities and some religious organizations have been screened. So in total, I would say close to ten thousand women have been screened,” he indicated.
Speaking to crimecheckghana.org in an interview, Mr. Kwarteng said MBCF seeks to make breast screening closer to community members.
He said this during one of MBCF’s major breast screening exercises it organized for residents of Mallam, McCarthy, and its environs, which is part of its newly devised strategy.
This he said is to get more women screened.
“We decided to change our strategy due to the change in the school educational curricula. We realize that it would not be effective if we decide to concentrate on the schools because we will miss a large chunk of the students. So our aim has been to go into communities to target small and larger groups for which reason we have invited women from Mallam-McCarthy for them to get their breasts screened. It appears they are more interested in what they will get on the street than check their breast that is the more reason we have narrowed in on them,” Mr. Kwarteng said.
Street hawkers on the Mallam-Kasoa stretch of the N1 highway were not left out as they took time off their busy schedules to undergo the exercise.
Many women turned out at the offices of the Meena Breast Cancer Foundation to get screened.
Nurses from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital conducted the screening exercise.
MBCF was established a year ago at the back of the death of Mrs. Amina Oppong Kwarteng late spouse of Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng to advocate and provide financial and counseling support to breast cancer patients.
