Emmanuella-Faith Amoako, Paediatric Oncologist at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Director of Clinical Affairs at Yemaachi Biotechnology, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“It’s been two years since I wrote this article.
In those two years, I have stood in the radiotherapy unit, watching brachytherapy in real time. Not as words on paper, but as lived experience.
I’ve seen what it truly means to go through this journey: the courage, the pain, and the quiet endurance. I have listened to a friend go through this journey.
Even though everyone means well, the clinicians, the therapist and the technicians, it’s a disease that strips away dignity.
“Lie on your back, legs up,” they say, as the team carefully positions the probes, sometimes having to try multiple times to get it right. Sedated or not, dignity is lost.
I have watched young, promising women die from it. Women who had dreams, families, and futures.
But today, I am filled with hope. Ghana is rolling out the HPV vaccine for girls aged 9–14 years and it’s free. Our girls can be protected.
They can live free from the pain and indignity that cervical cancer brings.
This is prevention in action. This is progress.”
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