"Let us send the prayers their way whiles patients go to the hospitals" - Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai Beatrice on creating Breast Cancer Awareness

Mrs. Elizabeth Agyemang condemned the excuse of apportioning the breast cancer ailment as a spiritual defect

"Let us send the prayers their way whiles patients go to the hospitals" - Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai Beatrice on creating Breast Cancer Awareness
Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai Beatrice, President of the Breast Care International

President of the Breast Care International, Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai Beatrice has enunciated that the reason for the loss of many lives through breast cancer is because of the lack of information surrounding the infection.

She has advised that religious leaders especially pastors need to educate affected members on the need to visit the hospital than to stay at prayer camps and die with the infection.

 

 

“A lot of our loved ones have died needlessly, pre-maturely, from a disease that is curable, survivable and highly treatable just because we didn’t get the right information, “she said.

“We know some women even stay in the prayer camps for months and years praying for miracles. Let us send the prayers their way whiles they go to the hospitals.

“We can pray for people who are outside the country. We don’t necessarily need to be there to have our prayers work. We can do this at all time for the woman whiles we advise them to go to the hospital,” she added.

The Breast Care International and Peace and Love Hospital on Friday, December 21, 2020 organized a Breast Cancer Forum themed, the role of religion in Breast Cancer Control in Africa at the Kumasi Technical University, Great Hall.

 

 

The Breast Care International is established to bring hope, health and empowerment to communities in Ghana through the provision of quality Breast Health Education, screening, counselling, advocacy, research, treatment and support to intensify breast cancer awareness and improve the quality of life of women at risk with breast cancer.

Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai Beatrice addressing the gathering called on the religious stakeholders to get involved in the campaign to fight the rising disease, which is impacting 2.1 million women each year, and also causes the greatest number of cancer-related deaths among women.

 

 

According to the World Health Organization data in 2018, it was estimated that 627,000 women died from breast cancer – that is approximately 15% of all cancer deaths among women. While breast cancer rates are higher among women in more developed regions, rates are increasing in nearly every region globally.

She urged pastors to direct their flock in knowing the basic truth about the functions of the hospital and the church to prevent victims from dying based on the antics of false scriptural interpretation.

“We appreciate our pastors, we give them all the respect we can think of, so we want them to help us do the right thing and direct us to the right places as and when we come to them.

 

 

“This disease (breast cancer) does not affect Ghanaians alone, even though the incidence is on the rise and we are using the Ghanaian platform to set the tod for the other cancers and non-communicable diseases. This forum is going to be the gate to Africa and the globe and middle-income countries.

“Why should the woman die of breast cancer when she can be treated and cured? She enquired.

"We still don’t know the cause of breast cancer so we cannot do primary prevention.

 

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We know that since 2018, Globocan has given Ghana the rate of breast cancer to be 4,650 annually. If all cancers in Ghana are about 22,000 and close to 500 happen to be breast cancer, this means we cannot joke about it anymore. But we needed to speak, we needed to save or women.

Mrs. Wiafe advised that church leaders must adapt ways to counsel the congregation especially women who are victims of the disease and direct them to appropriate centers for treatment rather than harboring them to be weaken by the fatal disease.

She beseeched on men who abandon their wedded wives to quit such a habit and support them for such is the time their spouses need them the most to get through the difficult times.

 

 

“I know that all the congregation will take a que from this and learn the right way to advise their women because they would always run to their pastors and wives. The pastors should also this as a responsibility because they have entrusted their lives into your hands.

“We need the prayers but let us see how we can have a positive synergy between the hospitals and the religious bodies.

“We have seen women who have been divorced by their husbands because they have been diagnosed with cancer. This is unacceptable. For better for worse means for better for worse. That is the time the woman needs your love, care and support and if you drive her from you, what do want to happen to her. We are not saying our women should stop believing in their God.

They should still be prayerful that our hospital work will be successful and medications will work. Enough of the early death and gone too soon.

 

 

The Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Mrs. Elizabeth Agyemang condemned the excuse of apportioning the breast cancer ailment as a spiritual defect and called on pastors to help fight the disease by referring such cases to the hospital for treatment.

She recommended that men of God should provide better teachings to distinguish the role of the church from other cooperate bodies.

Akosua Agyapong entertained the guests with dancing and singing.