Co-operative Bank, Beth Mugo Cancer Foundation alongside other partners will offer free Cancer screening in Kakamega County on Friday 27th September.
Kakamega event is the second one, following the first held in Kisumu in January this year at which hundreds of residents received free cancer screening and related medical advice.
Former Health Minister Beth Mugo started the foundation that runs cancer awareness and screening campaigns all over Kenya. The campaign aims at identifying cancer risk cases at an early stage, which is a crucial intervention in the effort to effectively combat this scourge that continues to ravage Kenyans.
“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,” read the foundation’s press release on Thursday.
The Co-operative Bank will support the Free Cancer Screening Campaign alongside other worthy causes that the bank continues to support that include 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.
The Co-operative Bank has made available sh10 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.
“We appeal to other corporate institutions and Kenyans of goodwill to join hands 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,” Group Managing Director & CEO Co-operative Bank, Dr. Gideon Muriuki.