The founder of the Peace and Love Hospital has urged government-run and other private healthcare facilities to make breast cancer screening part of their corporate social responsibility in order to save the lives of helpless and underprivileged women.

According to Dr. Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, doing so is the most reliable way to catch the disease early in many women and perhaps treat them.

She said, poverty prevents many women, particularly in the hinterlands, from getting screened, which results in needless deaths.

The hospital, along with Breast Care International, aims to lessen the prevalence of the disease both within and outside of the Ashanti Region.

To help underprivileged families understand the disease and go through the screening process, the health institution consequently expanded the awareness and screening initiative to Manso Abore in the Amansie West District.

According to Dr. Wiafe-Addai, breast cancer is one of the most deadly diseases for women, but unlike in industrialized nations, it is difficult to identify in Africa due to the lack of mammography screening.

Due to the instrument's absence, health officials have been forced to use the clinical breast cancer screening method, which necessitates additional training. This method helps detect the disease early in women, especially those over 40 years old, allowing for meaningful treatment.

She said, "In the developed countries, they have the screening Mammography, so women from the age of 40 in America or from the age of 50 in Europe, are invited to do their baseline mammogram and it continues like that between 40 and 50. They go for mammograms every two years and after 50 years they do yearly mammogram, that is the way by which you can get the early type of breast cancer for meaningful cure."

She expressed regret for the lack of such machines in this part of the world but indicates that this situation should not be a reason to allow women to die of the disease.

"It doesn't mean we should sit and let breast cancer kill us prematurely and that is why we use the clinical breast cancer screening and that is an acceptable mode of screening in middle and low-income countries."

Even though the number of women undergoing volunteer screening increases each year around October, according to Dr. Beatrice, women should still have regular checkups rather than waiting for breast cancer awareness month.

In the past ten years, the hospital has been able to screen about 150,000 women for breast cancer, and quite a few of them have had the disease found.

If the proper precautions are not taken carefully, a girl has a risk of developing the disease as early as 13 years old and dying of it.

Dr. Wiafe-Addai received praise from the Queen Mother of Manso Abore, Nana Akosua Takyiaa, for her dedication to providing quality healthcare in the area.

Given the risks involved, she emphasized that screening for breast cancer is crucial.

The screening for early detection and treatment was necessary in order to prevent more deaths, according to Nana Takyiaa, who said losing her daughter to the sickness was extremely traumatic.

She advised the women to seriously follow all the hospital's safety instructions in order to shield them from catching the fatal disease.