Prime Diamond Initiative for Community Health ( PDICH) an NGO has trained 61 women police officers on sexual reproductive health rights, breast and cervical cancer prevention , menstrual hygiene education and gender based violence.
The Executive Director, PDICH ,Chinasa Onukegbe said that the training was in commemoration of the just concluded International Women’s day celebration with the theme : “Women’s Health is everyone’s health”.
Onukegbe said the training was organised by PDICH in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force, FCT command and Project Pink Blue (PPB) .
She said that the training became imperative to educate women to be aware of their body system and what they should do when they needed help.
“Women police were drawn from difference divisions of the Nigeria Police Force so that they can also train other women police in their communities,” she said.
Onukegbe explained that they intended to look into the paramilitaries because a lot of them go through mental health and do not know how to address it.
Responding, Commissioner of Police FCT command, CP Bala Ciroma, commended the organisation for the initiative.
Ciroma stated that women police officers by population were very significant to the country.
According to him, women are very important segment that should be taken care of.
He urged the participants to make good use of the training while calling on the PDICH to make the training a continuous process to make women police healthy.
A Gynecologist, Dr Aisha Ahmed expressed concern that a lot has been said about cancer but not much had been said about cervical cancer.
Ahmed said that a lot of women were not aware of the Pap smear test adding that cervical cancer if early detected could be treated .
She said that Nigeria had a long way to go in raising awareness about the dreaded diseases which was most common among women.(NAN)
