{"id":367858,"date":"2017-11-02T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367858"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T12:00:51","slug":"kumasi-gtuc-joins-breast-cancer-awareness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367858","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi GTUC joins breast cancer awareness campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty of IT Business at the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), Kumasi campus has joined advocates to hold a breast cancer awareness campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was held jointly with\u00a0Breast Care International (BCI) and it included screening and public education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-367862\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Breast-Cancer-awareness-1.jpg\" alt=\"breast-cancer-awareness-1\" width=\"742\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A health walk was held through some principals streets of Kumasi before a free breast screening exercise at the school&#8217;s campus at Amanfrom.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons of the event, who included\u00a0faculty members and students as well as residents of the community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-367861\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Breast-Cancer-awareness-4.jpg\" alt=\"breast-cancer-awareness-4\" width=\"733\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breast Care International, as part of the partnership, distributed free breast self-examination gloves and thought participants how to examine their breasts.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were also screened for blood pressure and sugar level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-367859\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Breast-Cancer-awareness-2.jpg\" alt=\"breast-cancer-awareness-2\" width=\"740\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In October every year, Breast Cancer charities worldwide put breast cancer issues under the spotlight, propagating information and raising funds to boost research, diagnosis, treatment and cure for breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is also dubbed &#8216;Pink October&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty of IT Business at the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), Kumasi campus has joined advocates to hold a breast cancer awareness campaign. The campaign was held jointly with\u00a0Breast Care International (BCI) and it included screening and public education. A health walk was held through some principals streets of Kumasi before a free breast screening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":367860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1986,1286,3,1987],"class_list":["post-367858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-awareness","tag-breast-screening","tag-ghana-news","tag-gtuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}