Bali health centers offer cervical cancer detection

In efforts to prevent the spread of cervical cancer, all community health centers in Bali are offering public services to detect the disease, a gynecologist says.

Gynecologists, general practitioners, nurses and midwives at 114 public health centers in Bali haved joined a training program on cervical cancer, the head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Unit at the University of Udayana School of Medicine, Ketut Suwiyoga, said in a statement received by Antara on Tuesday.

The “see & treat” program is also organized regularly at village halls for the general public.

Ketut said health centers used cryotherapy to treat patients, adding that are currently only 38 cryotherapy facilities available in Bali.    

In 2010, the Bali population reached  3.9 million, with about 553,000 fertile women and a cervical cancer incidence rate of 43/100,000 (0.89 percent).