Men’s Health Foundation Ghana (MHFG), a leading men’s charity in the country, has urged government to recognise father’s with a National Prostate Cancer Awareness Day to help create awareness on prostate cancer.
“This Sunday, June 18, is Father’s Day, we want to use this opportunity to draw the attention of his Excellency, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to help recognise the day as such. We also call on the government to implement their special cancer policy as stated in the NPP’s 2016 Manifesto,” President of Men’s Health Foundation, Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, in a statement, said.
According to the statement, despite the many serious health problems confronting men, few countries have national strategies to address these problems.
“It is now increasingly understood that health policies and practices that take specific account of sex and gender differences are required,” the statement said.
“According to World Health Organisation responding to gender inequities in health, men’s health status and behaviour must be recognised,” it indicated.
The statement noted that the first country in the world whose government adopted a national men’s health strategy was Ireland followed by Australia and Brazil leaving behind countries like USA, the UK and Canada.
“It is against this background that the proposal to declare ‘Father’s Day’ – an event observed informally worldwide to recognise the contribution of men to the sustenance of families – as National Prostate Cancer Day by Men’s Health Foundation Ghana, to create awareness about the dire situation that men face in Ghana as far as the health of their prostate is concerned is important,” it statement said.
The declaration of Father’s Day as National Prostate Cancer Day, according to the statement, could mark the beginning of the design and formulation of a men’s health policy for the country.
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