Special Focus on Women’s Diseases with Three Days Free Service

For three days, Kinondo Kwetu Hospital offered free screening for cervical cancer and breast cancer and and free consultation and treatment for women’s diseases.

Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among women in Kenya. According to the Kenya National Cancer Control Strategy 2017-2022, cervical cancer accounts for about 21.1% of all new cancer cases and 12.1% of all cancer-related deaths in the country with huge consequences for the related families and the society as a whole.

One reason for these high figures is that a pathologist is required to diagnose the cervical cancer and they are very few. So the cancer is usually not detected until it has reached its later stages.

In answer to this problem, a new diagnostic method has been developed in a research cooperation between Karolinska Institute, Sweden, Kinondo Kwetu Hospital, Uppsala University, Sweden and Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland. It uses artificial intelligence to diagnose the early stages of cervical cancer, making early intervention possible, saving lives.

During the research period, many hundreds have been screened for cervical cancer and offered treatment, where needed.

Now it was time to start offering screening for cervical cancer on a larger scale. That is why Kinondo Kwetu Hospital opened its doors for a three day free screening of cervical cancer and also for breast cancer and free consultation and treatment for other gynecological conditions. More then 500 women came and were received at the hospital during these three days.

Women’s diseases have long been neglected, so this activity received much attention in media, as can be seen below, although it mentions AI treatments, where it should have been AI diagnostics.

Here is a short clip from the Kenyan television.