The President of the Medical Women Association of Ghana (MWAG), Dr Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, has urged women to screen and vaccinate for cervical cancer to aid in early detection and prevention.
She said such proactive move will save many women from dying from cancer.
Dr Amoakoh-Coleman stated that in a bid to empower women with information about the disease, her Association had embarked on different health advocacy programmes that had impacted the Ghanaian population for years.
She noted this during an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the triennial conference of the Association on the theme: 'Championing the Health of Women to Secure the Wealth of the Nation: The Role of Lady Doctors.' She indicated that "The Medical Women Association of Ghana had been recognised through cervical cancer education campaigns that sought to educate people about the condition that affects women even though it takes time for symptoms to manifest. "Cervical cancer clinical symptoms take time to be identified; therefore, if the awareness is created, people will practice its preventive methods," Dr Amoakoh-Coleman stressed.
