“BOARD MEMBER eyes free pap smear for women.” So, is there such a thing as pap smear, whether paid or free, for men?
One source of snickers is that headline in Sun-Star Pampanga. The headline writer showing some lapses, if not ignorance, in the ways of women there. Yeah, dummy, pap smear is exclusively for women.
The Papanicolau test – named after the Greek doctor that invented it, Georgios Papanikolau – is a screening test used in gynecology to detect premalignant and malignant processes in the ectocervix. Significant changes can be detected through the test thus ways and treatment can be found to prevent cervical cancer. So a quick check in the web showed.
No laughing matter there.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer disease and cancer-death among Filipinas. So the Department of Health itself has long been crying out loud.
Cervical cancer poses a clear and present danger to all, women, of course, especially – so the web holds – those between 35 to 55 years of age.
Cognizant of that threat to womanhood, 3rd District Board Member Monina “Monz” Laus’ is advocating to institutionalize a free pap smear program in Pampanga.
Says Laus: “The best and most affordable way to detect cervical cancer is by having regular pap smears.”
Laus laments that the inadequacy of information on women’s health and concerns coupled with the lack of financial capability has prevented women at the grassroots level from undergoing regular pap smear tests.
So how will the widow of Tatang Pinong go about concretizing her advocacy?
Start small, gradually enlarge until all kababainan Kapampangan are covered. That appears to be her strategy with “reaching out” as principal tactic.
“Reach out” to 25 women per barangay in Pampanga, “who are financially incapacitated and are at risk of cervical cancer.”
“Reach out” to the socio-civic groups and philanthropic organizations. Tap their corporate social responsibility of the business community and makes them “as partners to support the program, principally in terms of resources.” Laus names the Quota International Pampanga and Rotary Club of Central Pampanga as main convenors.
A community or barangay could be adopted by a partner NGO in sponsoring the pap smear tests for 25 indigent women “through monetary donation that will help augment the budgetary requirements of P200 per woman.”
To start off, Laus herself will soon deliver free pap smear services in Barangay Baliti in coordination with Quota International Pampanga.
That’s one advocacy worth emulating. Now, were other board members, even those aspiring to one, as proactive as Laus…
Yeah, if only each board member takes an advocacy he/she would see through during his term of office, the Kapampangan would not be wanting in the myriad services needed to enjoy a better state.
Yeah, like Board Member Johnny “JQ” Quiambao taking cudgel for abused teens and unwed teen-aged mothers as a personal advocacy. Ain’t that just swell?
One source of snickers is that headline in Sun-Star Pampanga. The headline writer showing some lapses, if not ignorance, in the ways of women there. Yeah, dummy, pap smear is exclusively for women.
The Papanicolau test – named after the Greek doctor that invented it, Georgios Papanikolau – is a screening test used in gynecology to detect premalignant and malignant processes in the ectocervix. Significant changes can be detected through the test thus ways and treatment can be found to prevent cervical cancer. So a quick check in the web showed.
No laughing matter there.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer disease and cancer-death among Filipinas. So the Department of Health itself has long been crying out loud.
Cervical cancer poses a clear and present danger to all, women, of course, especially – so the web holds – those between 35 to 55 years of age.
Cognizant of that threat to womanhood, 3rd District Board Member Monina “Monz” Laus’ is advocating to institutionalize a free pap smear program in Pampanga.
Says Laus: “The best and most affordable way to detect cervical cancer is by having regular pap smears.”
Laus laments that the inadequacy of information on women’s health and concerns coupled with the lack of financial capability has prevented women at the grassroots level from undergoing regular pap smear tests.
So how will the widow of Tatang Pinong go about concretizing her advocacy?
Start small, gradually enlarge until all kababainan Kapampangan are covered. That appears to be her strategy with “reaching out” as principal tactic.
“Reach out” to 25 women per barangay in Pampanga, “who are financially incapacitated and are at risk of cervical cancer.”
“Reach out” to the socio-civic groups and philanthropic organizations. Tap their corporate social responsibility of the business community and makes them “as partners to support the program, principally in terms of resources.” Laus names the Quota International Pampanga and Rotary Club of Central Pampanga as main convenors.
A community or barangay could be adopted by a partner NGO in sponsoring the pap smear tests for 25 indigent women “through monetary donation that will help augment the budgetary requirements of P200 per woman.”
To start off, Laus herself will soon deliver free pap smear services in Barangay Baliti in coordination with Quota International Pampanga.
That’s one advocacy worth emulating. Now, were other board members, even those aspiring to one, as proactive as Laus…
Yeah, if only each board member takes an advocacy he/she would see through during his term of office, the Kapampangan would not be wanting in the myriad services needed to enjoy a better state.
Yeah, like Board Member Johnny “JQ” Quiambao taking cudgel for abused teens and unwed teen-aged mothers as a personal advocacy. Ain’t that just swell?
