One student with excessive breast discharge and two other colleagues with lumps in their breasts have been referred to health facilities for investigation into cases of breast cancer.
They were students identified among others from three schools in the Mfanteman District in the Central Region.
The affected students were identified during a Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF)- organized breast cancer screening and sensitization, an outreach initiative.
The severely affected student is a student of the Kobina Ansah Senior High School while the others are from the Amissakrom-Ekroful and Kobina Ansah Basic Schools.
Staff and students underwent the free exercise to ascertain their breast cancer status.
Hundred and Forty-Five were recorded to have benefited.
While in full praise to MBCF, the District’s School Health Education Programme Co-ordinator, Cynthia Buckman appealed for an extension of the programme to other schools in the district.
“We thank MBCF for coming to the area. We would not have known there were victims. I appeal to the organization to return and organize it for other schools that did not benefit,” she pleaded.
Mfanteman District School Health Education Programme Co-ordinator, Cynthia Buckman
The affected students’ referral is to confirm or otherwise if it were breast cancer.
Meena Breast Cancer Foundation pays the bills for the treatment of breast cancer patients.
The schools add to make 13 educational institutions MBCF has visited with its programmes so far.
