Kumasi, Aug. 22, GNA - The Rotary Club of Achimota in Accra and a sister club in Oakland, California in the United States have jointly donated a cervical cancer screening equipment, worth about 11,000 dollars to the Kumasi South Hospital for its cervicare centre. At a presentation ceremony held at the hospital at Kyirapatre at the weekend, Rotarian Obeng Koranteng, an Assistant Governor of one of the rotary districts comprising 14 West African countries said, Rotary had been supporting cervical screening programmes in the country since 2001.

He said the Ridge and Amasaman hospitals in Accra had been the first two beneficiaries of the programme and that the equipment, which came with about eight accessory parts, offered an on the spot diagnostic procedure of all cervical cancer cases and its treatment with cryotherapy.

Dr Robert Kweku Sagoe, a gynaecologist/obstetrician at the hospital, who received the equipment thanked the Rotary Club for the gift, which was so timely, as his department, very ill-resourced had to depend on the family planning unit of the hospital for diagnostic equipment.

He said the equipment would go a long way to give expanded screening services to its large clientele, since the centre was the only cancer-screening centre for women in the whole of the northern sector of the country.