Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Bisi Fayemi, has appealed to women in the state to take advantage of cancer awareness and always submit themselves for regular breasts and cervical cancer examination.
Mrs Fayemi said on Tuesday that regular tests would allow early detection of the disease in the body thus leading to early treatment to combat it.
She made this plea during activities marking the sixth year remembrance of the late former Deputy Governor of the state, Funmi Olayinka, at Funmilayo Adunni Olayinka Women Centre in Ado Ekiti.
No fewer than 5,000 women from the 16 local government areas of the state converged at the Centre in rememberance of the late deputy Governor who died on April 6, 2013.
Fayemi, while addressing the gathering, explained that the programme was put together to sensitise and educate women in the state on cancer awareness and its early treatment.
Commissioner for health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, and a gynaecologist from the Federal Teaching Hospital Ido Ekiti, Dr. Mojisola Ayodele, spoke with the women on the need for regular medical checkup.
In a remark, the first child of the late Deputy Governor, Yeside Agboola, lauded the first lady’s initiative, and described it as unprecedented.
