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Breast Care International (BCI) has appealed to the Gender Ministry to extend the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to cover vulnerable breast cancer patients who are stranded at the country’s various health facilities. BCI believes that with the Ministry’s help, the lives of many innocent yet hardworking women would be saved. Speaking at the […]

The president of Breast Care International (BCI), Dr. (Mrs) Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, has said prayer camps and spirituality have no place in providing a solution to the increasing number of breast cancer cases in Ghana. Instead, she wants a focus on science and early reporting of cases at health facilities. While not downplaying the importance of prayer,

The President of Breast Care International (BCI), Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has appealed to men to avail themselves to be educated in breast cancer control in Ghana. She said men words are highly respected by women so they will be in a better position in advising and encouraging women on the disease control after

Chairperson for the Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has admonished fathers to be more health conscious. She said Ghanaians must cultivate the habit of routine check-up to detect potentially life-threatening health conditions early to increase chances of treatment and cure.  Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai, who’s also the President and

According to a Lancet Oncology (clinical oncology journal) report, cancer deaths could increase from 520,348 in 2020 to a million in 2030. Moreover, it said, the annual number of new cancer cases could increase from 800,000 to 1.5 million over the same period. The report, launched by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, in Accra yesterday,

There is renewed hope for cancer, hypertension, asthma, and diabetic patients as drugs are distributed free of charge to improve their health conditions. Most of the patients in rural areas are unable to afford the medicines they need and are therefore disadvantaged. For instance, cancer patients spend between GH¢500 and GH¢1,500 every 3 weeks on

One of the World’s most famous cancer surgeons, Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai Thursday morning, hosted a team of surgeons on the Lancet Oncology Commission at her hospital, Peace and Love Hospital (PLH) at Oduom, Kumasi. The team has been in Ghana to work on the Lancet Oncology Commission report about Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa

She was only 13 years in Primary 5 when she was diagnosed of the dreaded breasts cancer in faraway Kintampo, in the Bono East Region. Without the needed financial muscle, young Raina Komiri, now 16 and in Junior High School 1, thought her childhood dream of becoming a fashion designer had been dashed. Her father,

Friday February 4, 2022 on the theme “Close The Care Gap” As 15,802 die of Cancers in Ghana Annually. Ghana’s version of this year’s world cancer day is being marked with a mammoth durbar by the Chiefs and people of Goaso in the Ahafo region under the auspices of Breast Care International to highlight awareness,

Goasomanhene has challenged traditional rulers within his jurisdiction to leverage their wide-ranging influence and join the national campaign to care for cancer patients. Nana Kwasi Bosomprah said the fight against cancer should not be left for a few individuals like Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai, but be treated as a national ‘canker’ that needs concerted effort

Chairperson for the Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has called on the government to make healthcare delivery system in the country affordable to achieve Universal Health Coverage. She said the government in its efforts making health care accessible is providing more health facilities in the various districts across the country,