Open AccessMobile colposcopy by trained nurses in a cervical cancer screening programme at Battor, Ghana
Author(s) -
Essel N. O. Mensah,
Ewoenam S. Badzi,
Kofi Effah,
Mawusi C. Wormenor,
Ethel Tekpor,
Joseph E. Amuah,
Hayford B. Atuguba,
Stephen Danyo,
Dominic Agyiri,
Gifty B. Klutsey,
Patrick Kafui Akakpo
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ghana medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.294
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2616-163X
pISSN - 0016-9560
DOI - 10.4314/gmj.v56i3.3
Subject(s) - medicine , colposcopy , cervical cancer screening , cryotherapy , cervical cancer , cervical screening , nursing , family medicine , obstetrics , cancer , surgery
Cervical precancer screening programs are difficult to establish in low resource settings partly because of a lack of human resource. Our aiming was to overcome this challenge. We hypothesized that this could be done through task shifting to trained nurses.