By Erica Apeatua Addo, GNA
Tarkwa (W/R), Oct. 07, GNA – Mrs Wilhemina Tiwaah Duah Morttey, the Municipal Director of Health Services for Tarkwa Nsuaem, has tasked caregivers, parents, teachers, and proprietors to avail their girl children aged between nine and fourteen years, for the cervical cancer vaccination.
She explained that vaccinating girls at an early age against cervical cancer would protect them from the disease and its resultant deaths.
Mrs Morttey announced that the vaccination would commence from Tuesday October 07 to Saturday October 11, 2025, and it was meant only for girls between the specified age group.
Giving further insight on the exercise at a press briefing, Mrs Morttey said the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service (GHS), would soon launch the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign.
She stated that the vaccine was to provide protection against cervical cancer caused by the HVP, which could occur in the genital area, including the vulva, cervix, as well as the throat.
“We know that the HPV is transmitted sexually and 80 per cent of people who are sexually active have this kind of virus within them. The virus causes infections that translate into cancers,” she said.
Mrs Morttey said, “Once these girls would grow up and become sexually active, we do not want them to get to that stage where they would have to battle with cancers.”
The Ministry of Health together with the GHS, therefore, want to protect the girls from contracting these cancers, by fighting the virus that caused them, she said.
She assured the public of the safety of the vaccine and stated that vaccinating their girls now would protect them from developing cervical cancer in the future.
GNA
Edited by Justina Paaga/ Christabel Addo