DUBAI: The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, launched its annual breast cancer awareness campaign to raise the importance of early detection in breast cancer, highlight the factors associated with the increased risk of breast cancer, educate women on how to conduct the breast self-exam, and to reiterate the importance of breastfeeding in the prevention.
The campaign also aims to enhance the culture of how women who have breast cancer can deal with it and offers offering them the palliative care the moral and emotional support are instrumental in a woman’s healing process.
The campaign includes several virtual awareness activities, such as publishing educational posts on MoHAP’s social media accounts, screening educational videos in shopping centres and government institutions, motivate women to adopt healthy lifestyles to prevent cancer and to create an educated society aware of the risks of disease and ways to prevent it, as stated by Dr. Fadila Mohamed Sherif, Director of MoHAP’s Health Education and Promotion Department. The health education departments of the medical districts organize a number of activities, events and virtual educational programmes that urge community members to conduct breast cancer screening, including virtual awareness lectures for some government and private agencies and community institutions throughout October.
Source: WAM
