The Anambra State Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation, WHO, and Clinton Assess Health Initiative, CHAI, have trained medical doctors on cervical cancer prevention and treatment.
Speaking during the three-day training in Awka, the commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, described cervical cancer as a silent killer disease that can be prevented through early screening, detection and treatment, as one may not know about the disease until it starts to spread.
The Health commissioner noted that they are working with WHO to help the ministry with the Human Papillomavirus, HPV, Vaccines by next year, so that Ndi Anambra will be vaccinated against the disease.
Dr. Obidike noted that screening tests and treatment will be done at Ekwulobia, Enugwu-Ukwu, and Umueri General Hospitals and at some designated Primary Healthcare Centers including hard to reach areas of the state.
He further explained that the fifteen medical doctors that had undergone cervical cancer training are master trainers and will in turn train other health personnel across the state, and lauded Governor Chukwuma Soludo for granting his ministry all the necessary support to actualize the objective of the cervical cancer programme in the state.
The Anambra State Reproductive Health Coordinator and Cervical Cancer Focal Person, Dr. Uju Okoye, said that participants at the event were drawn from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka and General Hospitals across the state.
According to her, the training centered on; Anatomy of female genital system, Physiology and embryology of the cervix and transformation pathology of the cervix, Aetiology of cervical cancer, Epidemiology, Cervical intraepithelial Neoplasia, Counselling and informed consent among others.
Also, clinical sections of the training were done at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka.
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