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First mobile mammography unit launched

The country’s first ever mobile mammography unit
The country’s first ever mobile mammography unit

A local private clinic, Medlane Health Care, has launched the country’s first ever mobile mammography unit, a move aimed at raising cancer awareness and fighting the disease.

The unit will be moving across the country taking mammography breast screening for free.

During the journey, a team of volunteers which includes doctors and nurses, will visit the identified clinics to give awareness talks, demonstrate the self-breast examination techniques and conduct screening including palpation and breast scans using portable ultrasound and mammogramme machines.


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It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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