Isabel Mestres, CEO of City Cancer Challenge (C/Can), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Visiting the progress of our cities is probably one of the most rewarding parts of my work, even if sustainable progress is not always possible at the speed I would like.
As my technical team often reminds me: it’s not only speed that matters, it’s also doing the right things right.
This week I was in Kumasi, visiting the clinical services of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and again, I had one of those moments that stayed with you!
Because this is where strategy turns into real change.
- An oncology pharmacy being reorganized to ensure cancer medicines are prepared and handled safely.
- A fully refurbished mammography room to house the first mammogram unit in the local public health system in the past 15 years.
- Diagnostic and treatment specialists across multiple institutions discussing patient cases together in multidisciplinary teams – moving from isolated decisions to coordinated care.
- Nurses stepping into leadership roles, supported through new training programmes.
- Preparations underway to strengthen imaging and diagnostic services across the system.
Moments like these make you proud, first of the local teams, who are doing the hard work every day to improve their health system, and of the City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) team, who accompany that journey with technical support, persistence, and resilience.
And grateful to our strategic partner Amgen, who joined me in this visit and supports this work through a long-term commitment to strengthening health systems with C/Can. Because for Amgen, like for other partners supporting us, innovation only matters when it reaches the patients.
Transformation takes time. But when local healthcare workers proudly walk you through what we are building together, you are reminded why the work matters.”
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