Radio Okapi.Ph/ Jean Ngandu”/>
At least 100 doctors from 17 health zones in the Grand Nord part of the province of North Kivu were sensitized on Sunday, November 20 in Butembo, on the prevention of uterine cancer. It was on the occasion of the day “medical gynecology”.
This activity, organized by the Congolese Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SCOGO)/Butembo cell, aimed to raise awareness among healthcare personnel of their role to play in the prevention of cervical cancer.
According to Dr. Johnson Katirisa, one of the organizers, awareness through this medical day of gynecology, first concerned the nursing staff before being extended to the community:
“Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem and the DRC has a role to play in reducing the prevalence rate of the incident of this pathology which is decimating women throughout the world. So we are talking to doctors for awareness. We must reassure ourselves that women in the country are screened, we do screening, that is to say screening, so that those who are sick, we send them and those in good condition we show them how to prevent ”.
He also indicated that the World Health Organization has a plan to do so by the year 2030. Cervical cancer must be significantly reduced:
“We like the DRC, we must already get started, because if you see, the problem of cancer still has gaps. We don’t have a national cancer registry, we don’t have national data. And so we have to start somewhere. This is why the Butembo cell of the Congolese Society of Obstetrics Gynecologists has decided to embark on this battle”.
