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Hundreds of enthusiastic, health-conscious women Saturday morning thronged the Sehwi Asafo Catholic Parish Hall, where the Breast Care International,(BCI), medical outreach team had pitched camp to educate the townsfolk  and carry out yet another free breast screening program for the women.

The exercise attracted over one thousand four hundred participants, and was preceded with a few minutes of exercise as the preamble, stressing the importance of exercise in the fight against the Non Communicable Diseases. A comprehensive, motivational and educational talk was given by BCI President Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, who reiterated her desire to sustain the breast cancer education proogram in rural areas where ignorance and poverty have conspired to deny many, the right to proper medical care.

Dr. Beatrice Wiafe, who is also the CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals said the two organizations are committed to a breast cancer free Ghana and will not relent pursuing that mission statement, the challenges of poverty, and ignorance, notwithstanding.

Earlier in the day, two survivors, themselves natives of the area, joined energetic Raheema, also a survivor, on the podium to assure the women that breast cancer is curable and survivable if suspicious lumps are reported on time for treatment.

The healthy looking survivors said they are living testimonies to the effect that breast cancer is curable, and survivable; and encouraged the women to disabuse their minds of wrongly held notions about the disease being caused by witchcraft among other superstitious beliefs.

Traditional authorities of the town commended Breast Care International for sustaining the rural education campaign and promised to support subsequent programs in whatever way possible.