Three to receive free cervical cancer treatment

Three women, who were screened at the Starr Mother’s Day Health Screening, have been referred to the Ridge Hospital for immediate cervical cancer treatment.

The trio will be given free treatment by the Ridge Hospital in Accra.

A total of 105 women took the cervical cancer test with 91 being declared normal and free from the disease.

Eleven of them will need another test in six months to confirm if they have cervical cancer or otherwise.

According to Dr. Ernest Adjei of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Proactive Female Wellness, the three represent 13 per cent of the total number of women screened having abnormal smears.

He described the statistics gathered from the Starr Mother’s Day Health Screening on cervical cancer as disturbing.

“The results are very worrying. Across the world most of the screenings that are done record about 10 per cent of the screening population having abnormal smears. In our case we recorded more than that. If you take the results and project it on the population of women in Ghana the situation is worrying,” Dr Adjei said during Starr FM’s Health and Wellness show.

Over 400 women turned up for the Starr Mother’s Day Health Screening in May which included breast cancer, blood sugar and cholesterol, tuberculosis and HI testing as well as cervical cancer which was the focal point of the screening.