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Ranchi, Dec 20: Dr Rama Joshi, director of the Oncogynaecology department at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram has lauded the Jharkhand model to eliminate cervical cancer. During the ‘Breast and Cervical Cancer Eradication Camp’ at Sadar Hospital, Ramgarh on Friday, Dr Joshi, in her letter, said that the Women Doctors Wing IMA and the Jharkhand Health Department prepared a revised policy for the third part of WHO’s Cervical Cancer Eradication Policy and has achieved great success in reaching the set target.
Moreover, a total of 610 patients were screened in the camp out of which genital infection was found in about 60 per cent of women. Also, Cervical pre-cancer was detected in 20 women who were cured of cancer by colposcope-guided cryo treatment at the campsite itself.
Apart from that, two women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the camp and were referred to RIMS. Iron, folic acid and calcium tablets for one month were distributed free of cost to all the women who came to the camp. Kit 2 and Kit 6 tablets were distributed free of cost to all the women suffering from white discharge from the genitals i.e. leucorrhoea.
Dr. Bharti Kashyap, National Co-President Women Doctors Wing Indian Medical Association said that in 2021, Women Doctors Wing along with Health Department revised WHO’s Cervical Cancer Eradication Policy and made the Jharkhand Model so that 100 percent Cervical Disease Women with HIV can be screened.
“We have achieved 50 percent (1,27,000) of the target of screening 2,70,000 women,” she said.
Every year, around 67,000 women die of cervical cancer in the country. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among all types of cancer spread in India. This type of cancer is the most preventable and successfully curable cancer. A special plan has been prepared for the eradication of breast and cervical cancer disease among women in Jharkhand. Women Doctors Wing is running a breast cancer eradication campaign in collaboration with Jharkhand Government.
Dr Bharti Kashyap said that after becoming the chairperson of the Women Doctors Wing IMA in 2014, she started organising mega women’s health camps in remote areas of the entire state, in which all the women attending the camp were screened for cervical pre-cancer.
“Screening was done and all women with cervical pre-cancer were cured by colposcopy-guided cryo treatment. In all the camps, Kit 2 and Kit 6 tablets to eliminate genital inflammation, iron, folic acid and calcium tablets were also distributed to the needy women,” she said.
Government gynaecologists posted in remote areas of the state have been trained in cervical pre-cancer detection and colposcopy-guided cryo treatment by cancer gynaecologists called from Delhi and Kolkata in all mega women health camps organised in the last eight years. In this way, the Women Doctors Wing IMA has played a major role in creating a team of specially trained government gynaecologists in the state.
