Five thousand women in Ekiti State are to be exposed to free cervical cancer test and treatment to reduce mortality rate.
Wife of Ekiti State Governor Erelu Bisi Fayemi announced this in Ado Ekiti at the launch of Ekiti Cancer Control policy supported by world Health Organization.
She observed that a lot of women are dying due to inability to pay for treatment of such ailments hence the need for government’s collaborative effort with development partners to reduce mortality rate among women.
“If you miss out from the first five thousand people that will be captured in the exercise, all it will cost you cannot be more than fifteen to twenty thousand naira which considerable not too costly to safe ones life” The Governor’s wife said.
Erelu Fayemi who noted that multiply sex partners and unprotected sex remained one of the causative agents appealed to women to do away with unprotected sexual habit to prevent cervical cancer and other related diseases.
The Governor’s wife therefore appealed to women to imbibe the culture of caring for one another by reminding themselves to make themselves available for medical attention at government health facilities.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani urged Nigerians to take routine health care seriously so as to reduce avoidable death rate.
In a lecture, An health Care provider, Cancer Designated Center, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Mrs Funke Adeyoye said 8.5percent of women in the state under treatment of one ailment or the order were battling with cervical cancer.
“It is an ailment that should be taken seriously because alot of people are dying from the disease” she said
Mrs Adetoye urged women to come out for free test and treatment as soon as the exercise commence saying that people should be vigilant as it would be announced.
The health care provider who said the ailment could be treated at the early stage if detected appreciated government for providing a means by which people could access treatment without payment.
Ten Health facilities designated for the exercise are;
Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital Ado Ekiti, Federal Teaching Hospital Ido Ekiti, State Specialist Hospital Ijero-Ekiti, comprehensive Hospital Ijero Ekiti, Comprehensive Hospital okeiyinmin, Ado Ekiti, State Specialist Hospital Aramoko, State Specialist Hospital Otun, Comprehensive hospital Ilawe Ekiti, State Specialist Hospital ikere and State Specialist Hospital ikole Ekiti.
