By Katrin Hennings | Project Leader/chairman
Every year we run our special "jornada", a special offer for all women to receive a PAP (Papanicolau test).
This is an examen in which you take a swab of the cervix of the uterus to detect inflamation or (pre)cancer. We offer that to all our adult female patients during our consultation in the villagages or in Ocotal. It is -as all our services- free of charge.
The tests need to be examined by a pathologist in a laboratory. We take it to Ocotal and deliver it to the local lab. The doctor doing this test has offered us a special price to support our work.
We later receive the written report with the results and hand them out to the women during our next visit in the community .
Certainly if necessary we start the treatment of an infection (which happens very frequently ) or transfer the patient to the Centro de Salud or hospital if (pre)cancer is found so that a therapy can be planned.
It sounds easy and logical but it is an immense help because the coordination of doing the test, examining it in a lab and the most difficult part to let the patient know the result and organise necessary treatment is not easy and very special.
Early detection and treatment of cervix carcinoma and also infection is crucial and urgently needed for our female patients .
This year we could perform 45 tests within one month and initiate treatment where necessary .
A big succsess and we want thank you for your support making this possible!!
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