Kenya Satchell
6:06 PM
02/04/09
In 2001, the Jamaica Cancer Society was given a $10 million dollar mobile mammography unit which has helped this Society screen over 16,000 women. The screenings for the women of Jamaica are free of charge thanks to the National Health Fund. In Jamaica, cancer is the third ranked cause of death that’s why the mammography unit is so important. Unfortunately, the unit has been out of service since August of last year after traveling all over Jamaica for the past seven years. The problem is they don’t have enough funding to keep up the maintenance of the mobile unit or purchase another unit for back up. These tests are obviously a very important factor in saving the women of Jamaica’s lives and are critical for the early detection of breast cancer. It is important that the Jamaica Cancer Society receive some type of funding of support to put this unit back on the road.
I think what the National Health Fund did for the women of Jamaica was very helpful especially with their cancer percentage being so high. Getting a regular mammogram is very important not just for the women of Jamaica. I understand the women in the US and possibly other countries have more healthcare options than the women of Jamaica, but what can we do to help them? True, right now we can barely help ourselves, but why were we wasting money in 2001 on a war we still don’t know the facts about instead of helping advance medical procedures across the world?
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1 comment:
I agree with you. I believe that we should help them out because healthcare is very important and hard to come by in some countries. Breast Cancer is high on their list so, it should be one of the countries main concerns when trying to improve the quality of life for Jamacian Citizens, expecially women. Be a question here would be, do you think that because breast cancer is found predomintally in women and the economy of the countries is poor, that they are not providing sufficent funds for the machine because women's right/healthcare is not their main concern?
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