Africa-Press – Namibia. OCTOBER is observed as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, hence the Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) will be hosting a Pink Day Clinic in Windhoek at the end of this month. The campaign is aimed at creating awareness and educating people on cancer in the country.
According to Rolf Hansen, CAN Chief Executive Officer, the day is scheduled for 28 and 29 October at John Meinert Street in Windhoek West, where the clinic will provide complimentary breast and cervical cancer screening for 300 financially vulnerable Namibian women.
“A final women’s health clinic will then be hosted the first week of November at N$100 per patient, where after screening services will resume early in the new year,” he said.
He explained that the National Cancer Outreach Programme of the Cancer Association of Namibia (WO30) annually travels to all regions of the country to provide free screening in the local communities.
Hansen added that capacitating local Ministry of Health and Social Services nurses to continue providing these services when the CAN teams return to Windhoek is part of this project.
He indicated that the ideal would be a year-round continuous screening effort nationwide, but they must make use of the ‘pink month’ movement to motivate women to go for cancer screening.
Sexually active women over the age of 25 are also encouraged to go for a pap smear at least once every 3 years, while women over 40 should go for an annual clinical breast examination, and ideally a mammogram and/or breast sonar.
Hansen stated that women who are immune compromised, such as HIV+, must have an annual cervical screening. The National Cancer Outreach Programme is funded by the annual Bank Windhoek Cancer Apple Project that was recently launched.
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