The Executive Director of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, has indicated that the fight against breast cancer must not be a yearly fight but must rather be an everyday agenda to save lives.

This, he said, is because the disease is deadly and claims more lives than any other illness.

Mr. Kwarteng was speaking on Peace FM’s ‘Mpom Te Sen’ show when he described how he lost his wife, Amina Oppong Kwarteng, to the disease.

According to her husband, before she passed away, Mrs Kwarteng had planned to lead the fight against breast cancer, should she have recovered.

Mr Kwarteng, speaking about the ordeal his family endured during his wife’s illness, then announced the “Meena Breast Cancer Awareness” project in honour of his late wife.

The Project, he said, is solely aimed at creating awareness and helping those who already have the disease.

He believes that yearly advocacy for the disease is not producing the desired results because many women become aware of the disease only during the breast cancer awareness month of October.

“The disease breaks families apart. The cost of treatment involved is huge and the chance of survival of a patient is narrow so we want to fight breast cancer every day and not only in October. The yearly advocacy is not sustainable,” he said.

Mr. Kwarteng said, apart from the advocacy, breast cancer patients would also be supported financially to undergo treatment under the project.

“We would go to female prisons, villages, towns to drum home the advocacy to do early examination and screening of the breast. The project would be run alongside CCF’s Health Check Series to support patients undergoing treatment,” he noted.

Mr. Kwarteng made a public appeal for support in order to successfully run the campaign and said, “I am going to do this till I depart this earth.”

The ‘Meena Breast Cancer Awareness’ project will be launched on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at the Old Labour Hall in Accra.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer.

There are about 1.7 million new cases and 522, 000 deaths from breast cancer each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Source: The Independent Ghana