The screening was part of the activities organized by JEAD Foundation to close the month long celebration of the Breast Cancer month this year.

Among the activities organized by the Foundation to commemorate the month was a float and meeting of breast cancer survivors to tell their story as a way of motivating other women to accept surgery in the treatment of breast cancer.

This is because there is a strong unfounded believe in Ghana that women who undergo surgical removal of their cancerous breast would die.

However medical experts explained that women suffering from breast cancer die after surgery because many of such women stay away from the hospital and only report when they are in their worst situation.

JEAD Foundation for Breast Cancer is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which focus on creating breast cancer awareness and offers support for breast cancer patients in rural areas and vulnerable people in deprived places in urban areas.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after the screening, Mrs Judith Ellen Awuah Darko, Executive Director of JEAD Foundation for Breast Cancer, said since 2011, the Foundation has sponsored the breast cancer screening of over 8,500 men and women in rural communities, deprived communities in urban communities and for students.

The Foundation has also sponsored breast cancer treatment of 55 people who have challenges in funding the cost of their treatment.

According to experts, it cost an average of GH¢3,000.00 for one to go through the chemotherapy treatment of breast cancer.

The Foundation had been sponsoring an average of four breast cancer screening annually.