Assembly adopts motion wanting cancer screening centers established at Sub-county hospitals.
By Dickson Odhiambo.
July 24, 2019.
Assembly adopts motion
wanting cancer screening centers established at Sub-county hospitals.
THE County Assembly of Kisumu has today passed a motion
wanting cancer screening centers established in all the Seven Sub-Counties
hospitals within the County.
In a motion sponsored by Kajulu Ward Member of the County
Assembly Roy Samo but moved by Central Kisumu ward Judy Ogada, the members of
the County Assembly passed the motion unanimously terming the cancer disease as
a big menace in the county that needs to be dealt with at an early stage.
Member of the County Assembly representing Kajulu ward Roy
Samo while contributing to the motion said indeed it is sad that most patients
suffering from Cancer Disease seek its treatment when at advanced stage
hence making many lives to be lost as a result of the disease.
Samo says this is the reason as to why there is need to
establish cancer screening centers within the Sub-County Hospitals within the
county so that those suffering from the disease can be get early screening and
detection.
Samo says if early screening is done and the disease is
detected at earlier enough, the patients can be treated at its early stage.
“Mr. Speaker, the disease known as Cancer is a very dangerous
one and can only be treated if early diagnosis is done when it is still in its
early stages through screening. This is why I have brought up this motion
wanting the establishment of cancer screening centers within all the Sub-County
Hospitals across the county so that anybody suspected of suffering from the
disease can visit such a center for screening,” Samo said.
He says there is need to train even the Community Health
Workers on the issue of detecting signs and symptoms of the cancer disease
since they are the ones who are at the ground level dealing with the people
directly.
Samo says even the Nurses should be trained on how to detect
the disease at an early stage, adding he has a medic who is a good friend of
his and can volunteer to offer such trainings.
Market/Mlimani ward Representative Seth Ochieng Kanga who
also supported the motion said this will be one of the biggest achievement if
implemented.
He said all the Seven Sub-Counties within Kisumu County
should have such cancer screening centers including the Kisumu Central
Sub-county.
Ochieng says proper preventive structures should be put in
place that include the establishment of the cancer screening centers at the
Sub-County levels.
He says leaders should be in the forefront and lead on the
issue of be screened for cancer diseases so that they know they status in
regard to such.
Kisumu County Majority Leader Kenneth Onyango said cancer as
a disease has really ravaged a number of families who have lost their loved
ones through the scourge.
“I want to believe that the establishment of cancer
screening centers at the sub-county level will really be of great help since
people will be able to be screened of the disease hence get treatment at an
early stage of the disease,” he said.
East Seme Ward Representative Seth Okumu said what is
important is the implementation of the proposal, adding that a budget should be
set aside for this.
“Let us factor in some money in this budget estimates which
we have not passed yet for this issue of cancer screening centers within the
Sub-counties level,” Okumu says.
Central Kisumu Ward Representative Judy Ogaga who moved the
motion and was called to reply before it was passed thanked the members for
debating soberly about it.
A member of the Speaker’s Panel Eric Agolla who chair the
session committed the motion to the committee on Health led by Vincent Jagongo. The motion was adopted without being
opposed.
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