It is essential to have a national program of fight against cancer, otherwise it is impossible to stop this disease,”Dr. Diop argued during a training session on the management of breast cancer, for district leaders and other gynecologists.
In this perspective of developing a national plan, said Diop, experts had produced in 2007 a strategic study on the table made by health authorities, but he lamented, the file has not changed too .
The director of the Cancer Institute in Senegal said that the budget share allocated to the Triactol management of the disease is not much compared to the magnitude of breast cancer.
”It’s a matter of political will because the authorities give us an annual budget of 80 million CFA francs only (for the Institute),”he reported.
Another difficulty, noted the specialist, there is no statistical queries in Senegal to the mapping of the disease by publishing figures for lack of a substantial budget.
It was with all these difficulties that the Senegalese League against Cancer (LISC) began days of training and awareness to advocacy with government.
”Breast cancer is really starting to worry, that’s why we wanted to introduce initiatives, starting from the bottom up with the training of physicians in Dakar and within the country,”said Monique James Thiaw , president of LISC.
