Cameroon:Nationwide campaign against cancer launched

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20.10.2021 at 10h42
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JournalduCameroun

Actions to mark the marketing campaign to combat in opposition to most cancers had been launched final Tuesday, October 19 on the Yaounde Gyneco-Obtetrics and Pediatric Hospital.

The launch which coincided with the World Day devoted to combat in opposition to breast most cancers supplied a platform for drum echo for extra actions to combat in opposition to the illness.

In response to statistics from the World Well being Group (WHO) in 2020, 13,199 folks died of most cancers in Cameroon and 20,745 new instances had been recognized, together with 12,235 primarily gynecological (breast and cervical most cancers). These growing figures denote the proportion taken by this pathology, nonetheless curable, throughout the inhabitants. In response to consultants, most cancers is a curable illness, supplied it’s caught early and handled successfully. Sadly, the findings present that in Cameroon, sufferers in 80 p.c of instances arrive on the hospital at superior levels, which will increase their prognosis.

Launching the marketing campaign, the Inspector Normal of Medical and Paramedical Companies on the Ministry of Public Heallth, Dr Yves Mathieu Zoa Nanga, urged ladies, girls and moms to often go for screening, as a result of when it comes to the numbers, most cancers is taken into account a serious public well being downside.

He then proceeded by presenting the assorted actions taken by authorities to curb this quick rising illness.

Within the nearest future, Class I hospitals will probably be geared up with centres for everlasting screening and early prognosis of cancers. This may allow pre-cancerous lesions to be detected as early as doable and handled for the well-being of populations, he stated. As well as, most cancers registers will probably be made accessible, which can assist consolidate statistics and construct up dependable, verifiable knowledge, important parts for decision-making. As a part of this month’s marketing campaign, a sensitization caravan will crisscross all of the areas to display for breast and cervical most cancers.

Cameroon is supported on this combat by its companions similar to WHO and UNFPA. The latter has been working for a number of years with the Ministry of Public Well being to enhance screening and therapy efforts. It’s throughout the framework of this collaboration that the coaching modules on the detection and early administration of cervical and breast most cancers (reproductive cancers) had been developed; 18 nationwide trainers, 16 well being suppliers (docs, midwives) and 17 group well being employees had been every skilled in consciousness, screening and early administration of breast and cervical most cancers. Help has been allotted to 17 websites for the detection of this illness throughout this sensitization interval.

The marketing campaign will not be restricted to communication, consciousness and screening for danger elements. In response to the Everlasting Secretary of the Nationwide Most cancers Management Committee, Prof. Paul Ndom, it’s also a matter of supporting peoples with the illness, for whom the bodily sacrifice, the psychological efforts to be made and the monetary burden stay monumental.