Co-op Bank Joins Beth Mugo Foundation To Offer Free Cancer Screening

The Beth Mugo Cancer Foundation in collaboration with Co-operative Bank and other partners has drawn out a countrywide program of Free Cancer Screening Camps where Kenyans can get free screening for the key lifestyle disease conditions.

The free cancer screening camp will take place on Friday, 27 September 2019, at Lumakanda Primary School in Lugari Constituency, in Kakamega county, where patients will receive not only screening for cancer, but also blood pressure, blood sugar levels and other related health needs.

Cancer has become such a menace lately in Kenya and the world at large and is said to cause more deaths than HIV and malaria combined.

In Kenya, Cancer is said to be the third leading cause of death as it claims more than 37,000 lives of the young and old, rich and poor, annually.

Kenyans have always been encouraged to go screenings so that prevention measures are taken and in case one is found to have cancer in its initial stages, it will be a lot easier to treat.

The Co-operative Bank has made available 10 million shillings to be applied over five years on the Prevention of Cancer campaign and looks forward to supporting the free cancer screening camps in all counties of Kenya.

The free screening in Kakamega county will be the second one Co-operative bank partners with the Beth Mugo Foundation to do, after the one held in Kisumu in January 2019.

Co-op bank’s CEO Dr. Gideon Muriuki called on other corporate institutions and Kenyans of goodwill to support the early screening campaigns and sensitized Kenyans on the same.

“We appeal to other corporate institutions and Kenyans of goodwill to join hands and create a movement around the importance of early screening and testing for the key health challenges such as cancer and diabetes that continue to ravage our families causing untold misery mainly due to very late diagnosis,” he said.

The Co-operative Bank has not only pledged its full support towards the Free Cancer Screening Campaigns, but also for other worthy courses such as First Lady’s Beyond Zero Initiative on child and maternal health, the School Fees Bursary Program that has supported over 6,900 gifted but needy students, and capacity-building in the over 15 million-member co-operative movement under the Co-operative Bank Foundation.