Cervical Centre Battor

The official Twitter account of the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre(CCPTC), Battor in Ghana, West Africa.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

Dr. Kofi Effah from @CBattor argues for additional urgency to prevent #CervicalCancer to save lives. Read more in the recent TogetHER Interview!

https://t.co/xfZUxmZS4r

[TogetHER for Health @Toget_HERHealth]

Dr. Kofi Effah from @CBattor argues for additional urgency to prevent #CervicalCancer to save lives. Read more in our recent TogetHER Interview!

https://t.co/1tezcRgqKk

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

will be happy for him. I can only wish him well. He deserves it.

https://t.co/67DnkTDCCf

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

SPOTLIGHT: STEPHEN DANYO (ELORM) - A PIVOT AT THE CCPTC

By Dr. (Med) Kofi Effah

He is better known as Elorm. Few know him as Stephen Danyo. He joined the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre (CCPTC) in Catholic Hospital, Battor in 2019. He has worked very hard and

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

him is not perfect. He sometimes overreacts, getting him into confrontations...

If Elorm continues to work this hard, soon he will outgrow the CCPTC. He may be poached by a bigger institution where he will have greater impact. It will be difficult to get a replacement for him I

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
-- Mother Teresa.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

After two weeks of intensive training (with an outreach at Kofikope Model Health Centre in Afienya in the Greater Accra Region, where over 130 women had 'free' cervical precancer and breast cancer screening), 16 health workers complete Module 1 of our programme.

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More health workers are being released across Ghana in the fight against cervical (and breast) cancer.

You will not find this model of training anywhere in the world.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

Dr. Emmanuel Atsu Dodor.

6. The North Tongu District Director of Health Services, Mr. Michael Ziggah.

We believe this marks the beginning of a new era in cervical cancer prevention in Ghana.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

The Director General of Ghana Health Service, Executive Director of CHAG, strong 'delegation' pay working visit to the CCPTC*

It was not a normal Ash Wednesday at the CCPTC. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea and the Executive

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GHS, Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe.

3. The Programme Manager, Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI), GHS, Dr. Selorm Kutsoati.

4. The Programme Manager, Non Communicable Diseases, GHS, Dr. Wallace Odiko-Ollennu.

5. The Volta Regional Director of Health Services,

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Friday, February 6, 2026.

Ghana Health Service
Launch of World Cancer Day
Teshie Community Clinic

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Thursday, January 29, 2026.

CATHOLIC HOSPITAL, BATTOR.
CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION AND TRAINING CENTRE (CCPTC)

A first year nursing student using a mobile colposcope on a dummy.
A new way - practical training to solve problems.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

Hopefully in the coming years this will be adopted by Nursing and Midwifery Training Colleges across Ghana. It will be a giant step in the fight against cervical cancer.

[Cervical Centre Battor @CBattor]

First of two outreaches for our third year nursing and midwifery students

They came to us in their first, second and third years. They have been trained in cervical cancer prevention. Later this year they will graduate as nurses, but they are special because they have been

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we have shown that nursing and midwifery students can be trained to offer cervical precancer screening. When they graduate they can offer cervical cancer prevention services wherever they are posted to in Ghana.