Dr. Ajeani who works with RHU demonstrates cervical cancer development using clinical instruments.

The Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) has asked government to train medical workers with skills on screening cervical cancer so they can be posted in rural areas to help the increasing women patients suffering from the disease.

The program coordinator RHU, Annet Kyarimpa, while addressing Members of Parliament at a dialogue on cervical cancer held at Parliament said that the country has few medical workers to detect for cancer of the cervix and called for urgent government intervention.

She also asked members of parliament to prevail over government to work on regional referral hospitals which she said has few medical workers to treat cervical cancer cases and save women who take the long journey to Mulago hospital for treatment.

She adds that every year in Uganda 3,500 women are diagnosed of cancer of the cervix and that of these, statistics show that 2,500 women die of disease although when detected early, cervical cancer can be cured.