Kumasi Cancer Project Starts

THE MUCH-talked-about ‘Kumasi Cancer City Learning Project’, also dubbed C/CAN 2025, has officially kick-started in Kumasi.

The educative programme is a brain child of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), a powerful cancer eradication body.

Kumasi is the first city in Africa and the fourth in the world, to be selected to be part of the key cancer city learning cities in the world.

The project is being piloted in Kumasi for the next three years. It seeks to reduce cancer-related deaths by 25 percent in 2025.

Kumasi would benefit from technical and financial support from the UICC to help prevent and treat cancer cases to boost human lives.

The opening ceremony and executive committee inaugural ceremony of the cancer city project was held on Wednesday in Kumasi.

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, entreated the entire citizenry to rally behind Kumasi so that the C/CAN 2025 project would be a success.

He said Kumasi, by their selection to be part of the project, has made Ghana and Africa proud, so “we should support the Kumasi to succeed”.

Hon. Agyeman Manu assured that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration would give the needed support to make the project succeed.

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, also assured that the Regional Co-odinating Council (RCC) would fully support the project.

Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, declared that “Kumasi is poised for action”, adding that a secretariat has been created for the cancer project in Kumasi.

He said the Kumasi Cancer City Project would soon emerge as the best cancer city learning city across the globe to make Africa proud.

Melissa Render-Garcia, Director of Regional Operations, C/CAN 2015, lauded the Kumasi Mayor and his team for their passion to make the project succeed.

The Bantamahene, Baffuor Owusu Amankwatia VI, who represented Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, said the chiefs in Kumasi would fully support the project.

By: Kwadwo Essel/ thePublisher