Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The Cancer Diseases Hospital in Lusaka says it has been attending to 650 cervical cancer patients every year from 2014.
This came to light when Sanlam Insurance Company donated sanitary towels to the hospital situated at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) ahead of tomorrow Women’s Day Commemorations.
Head of Gynecology and Kaposi Sarcoma Unit, Dr. Dorothy Lombe says female cancers such as cervical and breast cancer are among the common ones attended to by the hospital.
She says breast cancer cases attended to by the hospital have averaged 161 new cases in the last five years.
She adds that the hospital is currently attending to 163 cancer patients of which 86 are women, 36 children and 39 men.
Dr. Lombe says according to the national cancer control strategic plan, Zambia is estimated to have the second highest incidence of the cancer disease in the world.
Speaking when presented the donation, Sanlam Insurance Company Chief Financial Officer, Sandra Munkombwe says as the nation joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day, the Insurance Company is fully involved in the fight against cancer.
Ms Munkombwe says beating cancer is no longer a task reserved exclusively for researchers and the medical profession, but that it is a social and personal responsibility for society as a whole.