Source: All Africa
Fifty out of every 100,000 Kenyan women die of cervical cancer each year because of lack of finances and proper sensitisation. In US, only two women die from cervical cancer in a year.
A US doctor Kay Taylor Gyn of Prevention International No Cervical Cancer said her country records the small number because there is a proper sensitisation mechanism. She was speaking at Kisii Level 5 Hospital during a screening exercise of 180 women.
Dr Gyn said the hospital had in partnership with PINCC been working to see that women are properly sensitised on the importance of early cervical cancer check up. "It is saddening to see 50 out of 100, 000 women in Kenya die from cancer annually compared to the US which records only two in the same period," she said.
Accompanied by hospital Medical Superintendent Geoffreyu Otomu and gynaecologist Ondari Otieno, Gyn said PINCC had donated two screening machines to the hospital. She added they have trained two doctors, one clinical officer and eight midwives on how to use the screening machines.
Dr Ondari said that out of the 180 women screened during the one week, 25 had lesions suspected to be cancerous. "We are happy with the turnout compared to the last two years when the programe started," Otieno said. Dr Otomu said that the screening is done at a reduced cost of Sh150.