By King Amoah
At least 2,300 women die from curable breast cancer every year in Ghana, the Chief Executive Officer of Breast Care International Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai has disclosed.
The CEO made the revelation on Saturday October 4 after the organization’s intensive and striking walk through the principal streets of Kumasi create breast cancer awareness campaign.
The several hours walk led by Dr Beatrice Wife herself ended at Manhyia Park where Dr Wife addressed the milling participants.
She explained that the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign seeks to encourage Ghanaians especially women not to abondon the fight against the disease.
According to her the walk also formed part of the Breast Care International’s annual campaign program that aimed at creating awareness about cancers that affect women.
Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai a leading advocate in breast cancer cases across Ghana and beyond called for collective national support in the fight against breast cancer a disease she described it as curable.
It can be cured yet it is still claiming the lives of many Ghanaian women each year, she pointed out.
Dr.Beatrice Wiafe Addai who also doubles as the CEO of Peace And Love Hospital in Kumasi observed that
every man has a woman such as mother, wife, daughter or sister in his life.
So let us not see breast cancer as a disease that has limitations on one woman only.
We must confront it as a family and community problem, she asserted and stressed that when we bear that in mind we will come to the aid of women and diagnosed them with the breast cancer treat for their survival.
Today, we are going to see thousands of women who have survived breast cancer and I want us to know that if we support our women during the treatment periods many more will become survivors, she told the gathering.
Dr Wife stunned the listerners when she reiterated that in Ghana more than 2,300 women die from breast cancer every year.
This is unacceptable because it is far higher than the number of people killed by COVID-19 in Ghana, she hinted.
Dr Beatrice Wiafe Addai urged Ghanaians to dismiss the myths and misconceptions linking to the breast cancer to witchcrafts adding that such beliefs delay early detection and treatment.
We can conquer and defeat breast cancer but we need all hands on deck.
We must continuously educate our women to understand that breast cancer is a hospital disease and not caused by witchcrafts as wrongly proclaimed in the society to put fear in people,
she assured.
She noted that the way our young ladies were listening to her message gives her the hope that all the education they have received will be put into good practice.
Let us carry this message to our youth so that they would grow up with that understanding. she said.
Several breast cancer survivors also shared their personal stories, encouraging others to seek early medical care and remain hopeful.
A survivor Akua Amponah said her breast swelled severely for months but Dr. Wiafe put her on medication and she fully recovered from the disease.
Although one of my breasts was removed 13 years ago but l am now very healthy and more beautiful than before says another survivor Grace Baidoo.
She said the husband who abandoned her when she was battling with the disease has now come forward to beg her for reunion. she said with a smile.
A celebrated Ghanaian musician John Painstill, who recently recovered from drug addiction also urge teenagers to abstain from premarital sex and focus on their education.
