Five thousand women in Ekiti State are to enjoy free cervical cancer tests and treatment to reduce the mortality rate.

The wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi announced this in Ado Ekiti at the launch of a Cancer Control policy supported by the World Health Organization, WHO.

She observed that a lot of women are dying due to the inability to pay for treatment of such ailments hence the need for the government’s collaborative effort with developed partners to reduce the 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 considerably not too expensive to safe one’s life”, the governor’s wife said.

Erelu Fayemi who noted that having unprotected sex and multiple sex partners remained one of the causative agents appealed to women to do away with such behaviour to prevent cervical cancer and other related diseases.

The governor’s wife, therefore, appealed to women to imbibe the culture of caring for their health and reminded them to go for medical attention at government health facilities.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani urged Nigerians to take their health seriously so as to reduce avoidable deaths.

In a lecture, a health care provider at the Cancer Designated Center, Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Mrs Funke Adeyoye said 8.5 per cent of women in the state who were under treatment for one ailment or the other were battling cervical cancer.

“It is an ailment that should be taken seriously because a lot of people are dying from the disease”, she said.

Mrs Adetoye urged women to come out for free tests and treatment as soon as the exercise commences, saying that people should be on the lookout as it would be announced.

The healthcare provider, who said the ailment could be treated at the early stage if detected, appreciated the 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.

Busuyi Ogidiolu

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