Dr Raphael Nyakortey Obu, Chief Executive Officer of Men?s Health Foundation Ghana, has called for support from non-governmental organizations and corporate bodies to enable the foundation to fight prostate cancer.
He has also called for the institution of a National Cancer Plan to run courses in prostate cancer for health workers to reduce the prostate cancer mortality rate in the country.
Dr Obu was speaking to Ghana News Agency in an interview, at Dodowa, in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region, on Monday.
He said his outfit had a clear goal to ensure that the current geographical and socio-economic inequalities with regard to access to the best knowledge and services on the disease were reduced.
Dr Obu, who is also a naturopathic doctor, said the Foundation had been visiting communities and educating men on prostate cancer and offering free screening for those concerned about the disease.
He said: ?The Foundation has also developed some campaigns to raise awareness on the disease such as the ?Men United v Prostate Cancer?, asking all men to form a united front against prostate cancer just as the anti-breast cancer campaign of women?.
The Chief Executive Officer said as a non-governmental organization concerned about the health of men, the foundation had also established De Men?s Clinic and Prostate Research Laboratory at Dodowa to offer free prostate cancer screening for men in high risk group.
The clinic, he said, also catered for men diagnosed with the disease and needed more information regarding treatment options and the use of complementary medicine to improve their longevity, as well as the side effects of conventional treatment.
Dr Obu said his outfit had also partnered the Amansan Television and some churches to use the Men?s Fellowship to educate them on prostate cancer and why men must be proactive about their own health.
He said the Foundation was in the process of establishing screening centres across the country and was acquiring a mobile van to educate rural men on the disease.
GNA
