IBCN EXPANDED THINK-TANK on BREAST CANCER RISK

2013

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Beatrice Wiafe Addai, MD, Ph.D. C.E.O., Peace and Love Hospitals, Ghana President, Breast Care International (BCI), Ghana; Vice President, AORTIC, West Africa Chairperson, Ghana Breast Cancer Alliance Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai has 24 years experience as a Medical officer in Ghana; thus from 1989 to Date. She has been a Breast Surgeon for the past twelve years and a consultant in Breast Cancer Management. Her training and wide scope of study as a specialist Breast Pathologist and a surgeon has placed her at a convenient exposition as the Chief Executive Officer and the Senior Medical Officer of the Peace and Love Hospital both in Accra and Kumasi; a specialist hospital that is championing the course of Breast Cancer and its related diseases in Ghana. Due to her charisma, Dr. Wiafe Addai is known as a fine role model and inspiration to women and society as a whole and the quest for a unique professionalism as far as patients care and welfare are concerned. By God's grace and through her endowed knowledge, hundreds of women have been healed of various diseases particularly Breast Cancer. From a humble beginning since eleven years ago, Peace and Love Hospital now serves as a resource Centre for Information, Diagnosis, Treatment, Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Research for Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Hepatitis, Eye Care, and Renal Dialysis among others. It is in view of these, other tangible facts, and through her innovation and preoccupation of developing the infrastructure of Breast Cancer Advocacy, Breast Care International (BCI), an NGO that seeks to the promotion of Breast Cancer Awareness in Ghana especially in the remote communities was founded in 2002 in Kumasi to intensify public awareness on breast health particularly breast cancer.

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