It is very painful that right now there is a big number of children whose school fees have to be paid by BEAM, but if you do a thorough research, you find that most of their parents died because of cancer. That is why I am saying it is pertinent to prevent cancer. I am not going to repeat on how women can prevent cancer because I have already talked about it.
Women know some of the things which cause cancer on them. I am encouraging more research to be done in terms of herbs. I am encouraging Government to look more into the issue of herbs so that we know how best we can use them. Right now, people are obsessed by the sausage tree mumvee. People are saying that it is helping to treat cancer, but if the Government is not more into herbs, you may see that most of the time, these things are done privately and benefitting a few people. Since we are the ones who are responsible for crafting laws, can we make sure that for these herbs, proper research is done and published well so that everyone will benefit?
Let me conclude by saying women know a lot of stuff. I am going to repeat these things and say in the past, there were many practices which were done like using herbs to enhance breasts. That is how they were used and it was another way of preventing breast cancer. Let me conclude by saying, let us accept the herbs and do more research because they help very much.
I also want to thank the First Lady, Dr. Auxilia Mnangagwa that wherever she goes, she is educating people. She travels in different areas with a team which screens for cervical cancer on women. What she is doing right now helps us a lot to reach a milestone of not losing many women through cancer. It helps us a lot even in preventing women from dying from cancer. Many old women are dying from cervical cancer in our society, yet they play a major role because they look after orphans who were left behind by their children.
I also want to thank the Hon. Speaker for the words that I have spoken, which I was emphasising on the issue of cancer that we can prevent it. The treatment of cancer is expensive and it needs people who have got a lot of money. It is difficult to get medication for pain and you find men and women crying to show that they are in severe pain. The medication to stop pain is given once a month and it needs a lot of money. It is difficult to raise such an amount of money for a person to buy medication to relieve pain.
So, I am saying prevention is better than cure rather than letting the disease affect someone who ends up in need of money to buy medication. May Government also source machines which can detect the disease in its early stages. This will help us to detect if it is prostate cancer, cervical cancer, breast cancer or any type of cancer. It will help us as a country to prevent more deaths which are being caused by cancer. Thank you.
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