Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has declared that early detection of breast cancer will help to reduce mortality rate among women in Nigeria.
ACPN Chairman in Oyo State, Pharmacist Adebayo Gbadamosi made known at a one-day breast care awareness training organised by the Department of Radiation Oncology University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan for Community Pharmacists.
Gbadamosi decried poor awareness of breast cancer especially at the grassroots level.
He lamented that breast cancer is one of the major killer diseases among women.
Gbadamosi, however, said that early detection of the disease would help to reduce mortality rate among women in the country.
He used the opportunity to appeal to the governments at all levels to embrace policies that will provide platforms for all the members of the healthcare team to fully realise their potentials.
He added that this will help to avoid unhealthy rivalries that has characterised the system.
“Breast cancer as one of the major killer diseases among women would be well prevented through the early detection skills of the Community Pharmacists who occupy a major position as the first point of call for healthcare issues at the grassroots.
“If Community Pharmacies are properly acknowledged as one of the major Primary Healthcare infrastructures with unrestricted access and trust among the populace, it will cause sporadic improvement in the health care indices in Nigeria.
“I called the government at different tiers to embrace policies that provide platforms for all the members of the healthcare team to fully realise their potentials which is to the benefit of our nation,” he said.
