The recent surge of cancer-related health challenges facing the country has brought to the fore the need to ramp-up early cancer screening campaigns to help identify, in good time, cases where early intervention can help.
It is in this spirit that the Beth Mugo Cancer Foundation in collaboration with the Co-operative Bank of Kenya and other partners has drawn out a countrywide program of Free Cancer Screening Camps.
In these camps, Kenyans will get free screening for the key lifestyle diseases that continue to ravage families including cancer, blood sugar disorders, blood pressure and related health needs.
The Co-operative Bank announced that the next Free Cancer Screening Camp will be held on Friday, September 27, 2019, at Lumakanda Primary School in Lugari Constituency, Kakamega County, hosted by the Beth Mugo Foundation in collaboration with the bank, the County Government of Kakamega and other partners.
Everyone in Kakamega and beyond is invited to come for free cancer screening.
The Kakamega event is the second, following the first held in Kisumu in January 2019 where hundreds of residents received free cancer screening and related medical advice.
The Co-operative Bank has made available Ksh10 million to be applied over five years on the prevention of cancer campaign and looks forward to supporting the free cancer screening camps in all counties of Kenya.
It confirmed support for the Free Cancer Screening Campaign alongside other worthy causes that the bank continues to support, including the First Lady’s Beyond Zero Initiative on child and maternal health, the School Fees Bursary Program that has supported over 6,900 gifted but needy students, and capacity-building in the over 15 million-member co-operative movement under the Co-operative Bank Foundation.
Group Managing Director & CEO Co-operative Bank, Dr Gideon Muriuki appealed to other corporate institutions and Kenyans of goodwill to join hands with them and create a movement around the importance of early screening and testing for the key health challenges such as cancer and diabetes that continue to ravage our families causing untold misery mainly due to very late diagnosis.
