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The Rotary Club Kumasi-East has announced that it is intensifying its efforts to support the fight against cervical cancer.
The initiative will focus on sensitization and screening of core and graduate students and other young people.
"Last year, we began to raise awareness about the disease, screening will be next. This will be done in selected high schools. If this is done effectively, we will be able to reduce the number of deaths from cervical cancer, "said club president Francis Tettey Ahwah.
Statistics show that about half of the 573,000 people diagnosed with cervical cancer in Ghana in the last six years have died.
Cervical cancer is an infection of the cervix which, according to experts, is treatable if it is detected early.
Rotary plans to deliver a pickup truck from the Rotary International Fund to strengthen the teen vaccination campaign.
Mr Ahwah spoke to Luv News at a ceremony to hand over new club leaders for the 2019/20 Rotary year.
The club hopes to build a six-unit block of clbadrooms in Konongo Odumasi and at least 20 boreholes, at a cost of US $ 100,000 in the Ashanti region.
Already, members have invested approximately 2.4 million Cedis in various development projects in rural Ghana.
They include a peanut butter processing plant to improve child nutrition in rural areas.
The investment GH ₵ 600 000 cedis has saved the lives of thousands of malnourished children in Ghana.
The high-energy peanut paste, containing sugar, vegetable oil and skimmed milk powder, takes between six and eight weeks to improve the condition of the children.
The club provides free three bags a day to malnourished children.
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