“On World Breast Cancer Day, the KKE sends a heartfelt greeting to all the women who have fought and won and to those who are still fighting the disease. We demand that all women, regardless of their insurance and financial means or place of residence and based on the criteria defined by international scientific data, should be able to carry out the necessary preventive control using all scientifically proven methods under the responsibility of the state. and in a completely public and free way.
As much as the ND government praises the success of various Screening Programs, such as the “Fofi Gennimata” breast cancer screening program, the critical issues of prevention, early diagnosis and early treatment remain unresolved. The policy that considers Health as a cost continues to leave thousands of women unprotected without ensuring public and free services with permanent staff and equipment, trading the health of women fighting gynecological cancer, throwing the ball of individual responsibility at them again .
It is enough to look at the recent data: Inadequate examinations not accompanied by completely free treatment for whatever is diagnosed, the continued support of the private Health sector, because 76% of mammograms are done annually in the private sector and not only 24% of them are made. % of the population, unscientific exclusion of women aged 40-45 from the screening mammography program.
The KKE believes that a solution to the issue of breast cancer prevention and treatment can only be provided through a single Health system, which is public and free, with Primary Health Care at the center, which all governments have dismantled . This is the only way to ensure prevention, early diagnosis and safe and effective treatment, rehabilitation, psychological support of women who become ill, using in this direction all modern methods and possibilities developed by diagnostic and therapeutic technology, the progress in the production of modern medicines”.