The Anambra State Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation, WHO, and Clinton Assess Health Initiative, CHAI, have trained medical doctors on cervical cancer prevention and treatment.
Speaking during the three-day training in Awka, the commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, described cervical cancer as a silent killer disease that can be prevented through early screening, detection and treatment, as one may not know about the disease until it starts to spread.
The Health commissioner noted that they are working with WHO to help the ministry with the Human Papillomavirus, HPV, Vaccines by next year, so that Ndi Anambra will be vaccinated against the disease.
Dr. Obidike noted that screening tests and treatment will be done at Ekwulobia, Enugwu-Ukwu, and Umueri General Hospitals and at some designated Primary Healthcare Centers including hard to reach areas of the state.
He further explained that the fifteen medical doctors that had undergone cervical cancer training are master trainers and will in turn train other health personnel across the state, and lauded Governor Chukwuma Soludo for granting his ministry all the necessary support to actualize the objective of the cervical cancer programme in the state.
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