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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Kwara Approves Three Hospitals to Screen Breast And Cervical Cancer

Three designated hospitals in Kwara State  are  to screen women for breast and cervical cancer at a subsidised cost of N200.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported the hospital were; Adewole Cottage Hospital, Children’s Specialist Hospital and Sobi Specialist Hospital, all in Ilorin.

The subsidy is being provided by LEAH Charity Foundation, a project of wife of the state governor, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed.


Mrs Oluwatoyin Opawoye, Head of Programmes at LEAH, told NAN in Ilorin that the organisation was concerned about the rising cases of death by breast and cervical cancer.

“We are determined to reduce the trend and save precious lives. We passionately appeal to women in the state to go for breast and cervical cancer screening at any of the three designated hospitals with N200.

“The alarming rate of death among women through breast and cervical cancer and the high cost for the tests prompted LEAH Charity Foundation to initiate the subsidy,’’ she said.

Opawoye said that majority of women in the state were ignorant of the diseases until the terminal stage.

According to her, one out of eight African women are likely to develop invasive breast cancer in their life time.

She said that statistics put the survival rate in advance stage of cancer at 27 per cent, while survival at early detection was 98 per cent.

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