The Community Health Nursing Services in collaboration with the Nevis Health Promotion Unit held its free Pap Smear Screening in recognition of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January.
The screening was held at the Gingerland and Charlestown Health Centres on January 27th, under the theme: “Learn, Prevent, Screen”.
Pap Smears are used to detect pre-cancerous lesions in the cervix which are the first changes in the cells, before cervical cancer develops.
Providing a synopsis of the attendance of the screenings was Acting Coordinator for the Community Nursing Services on Nevis, Nurse Deslyn Tyson-Whyte:
She also gave the stats for persons getting screened for the first time:
