A three-hour walk in aid of breast cancer that the Keep Fit, Lawn Tennis and Squash clubs of the Four Garrison Officers Mess and their spouses organised in conjunction with the Surgery Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) at the weekend bagged 3.1 million cedis.
Other organisations that took part in the walk that some financial institutions including the Bank of Ghana, Metropolitan Insurance, Darko Farms and Luv FM sponsored, were cadets from Yaa Asantewaa Secondary School, Prempeh College, Opoku Ware School and the Armed Forces Junior Secondary School.
Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Chief Executive Officer of KATH, said the hospital now has a breast cancer clinic and called on women to come with their husbands to test for breast cancer.
He announced that a Breast Cancer Fund has been instituted to support breast cancer activities at the hospital and called for public support.
Major Mbawuni Atintande, PRO in-charge of the Northern Command, said the walk was in line with the call by Brigadier George Ayiku, General Officer Commanding the Northern Command to the military to promote military-civilian relationship. He said the Mess would organise quarterly civil activities since "donations to the breast cancer fund has no limit."
