As the world marks this year’s annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer, health expert and CEO of Chartma Herbal Health Centre, Charity Twumasi Ankrah, has encouraged men to suck breasts.
In an interview with Accra-based Joy Prime, she underscored the importance of
health advisory she was issuing, stressing that it helped to reduce breast
cancer in women.
She mentioned that women who were not lactating faced the challenge of having
their breasts sucked unlike those with babies who stood to enjoy the 'treat' as
a result of breastfeeding.
“Breastfeeding your baby is very important as a woman. That’s why if a woman
has not given birth, it is a worry because, at the end of the day, the breast
must be sucked,” she said.
Touching on the six-month exclusive breastfeeding for babies, Madam Twumasi
Ankrah noted that it ultimately inures to the benefit of the mother despite
some mothers seeing it as burdensome.
“Sometimes women are like ‘why should I do six-month breastfeeding?’ You feel
you’re just giving the child milk but in essence, you are helping yourself so
feeding your child or breastfeeding your child is very important as a woman,”
she emphasized.
Charity Twumasi Ankrah posited that men had a key role to play in the necessity
of sucking breasts. She said in the month of breast cancer awareness, men ought
to suck breasts even if they have not attempted it before.
“So if you are a man, please try as much as possible…even if you haven’t done
it before, for this month of October where we have breast cancer awareness try
to suck a breast,” she stated.
She cautioned that the sucking should only be done once in a while rather than
on a daily basis.
She also advised men to refrain from squeezing the breasts because "it is
not a balloon" warning that doing so can cause agony to women.
Madam Charity Twumasi Ankrah further urged women who are victims of breast
cancer to heed to cutting off a cancerous breast stating that it should not
make one feel shy. She said it should be viewed that the woman was saving her
life.
“For the women out there, gather courage if you have to do it. Don’t feel shy,
don’t feel bad. Just know that you’re saving yourself, if one breast has to go
off,” she encouraged.
As October is breast cancer awareness month, people especially women are
recommended to attend their local hospital or breast screening facility to have
their breasts checked.
Source: ghanaweb.com