Ouagadougou: Burkina has just adopted free care and services delivered within state mobile clinics, precisely for mammography and screening for precancerous lesions of the cervix, according to a report from the council of ministers, held this Wednesday in Ouagadougou.

For the Minister of Health, Robert Lucien Jean-Claude Kargougou, this measure will help improve the financial accessibility of target populations to these health services.

On July 25, 2024, the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré personally handed over the mobile clinics to the Minister of Health. Their acquisition was approved in December 2022.

These clinics are deployed in villages, countryside and certain peripheral areas of cities to allow populations to have ultrasound scans, to be screened for cervical cancer and breast cancer, and to take care of child care.

‘The objective is to bring care closer to the most vulnerable populations. These are mobile clinics which will be in all regions of Burkina Faso and that is the vision (…) t
o be able to offer quality care to Burkinabè wherever they are,’ declared the Head of State.

Source : Burkina Information Agency