An education programme on the dangers
associated with the deadly breast cancer was held recently at the
Garrison Street market, which attracted hundreds of market women and
stakeholders of the community and its immediate environs.
The programme aimed at sensitising the
market women dealing in food and non-food items. It was organised by the
Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation situated at 11 Percival Street
in Freetown, who is targeting all the markets in the western area with
about 4,000 market women expected to benefit from the project at a free
cost as part of their awareness and advocacy campaign on breast cancer.
Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation
succeeded to screen, and diagnose and counsel 165 market women; out of
this number 20 were discovered to have breast cancer abnormalities and
were referred for further self breast cancer and clinical examinations.
According to the founder and CEO of
Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation, Mrs. Cremelda Parkinson Pratt,
she said they do not want women to get left behind in the fight against
breast cancer and their main purpose is creating awareness about the
existence of the disease and its effects on human beings, particularly
the women.
Mrs. Pratt said her organization has
been involved in the education and treatment of persons with breast
cancer for the past four years and indicated that the disease posed
serious threats to many Sierra Leoneans.
According to her, the only way to detect the disease was to undergo screening.
One of the market women Madam Aminata
Conteh thanked Mrs. Pratt for their concern to them, noting Thinking
Pink really cares for the market women and assured them on behalf of the
market women that they will adhere to the advice given to them.
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