The Health department has screened 1.54 crore women through the Shaili app till February 18 as part of the comprehensive cancer care programme of the Kerala government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
He was responding to the issues raised at the Navakerala Sthree Sadas, a face-to-face interaction with women, held at the CIAL Convention Centre on Thursday. Over 3,000 women from various walks of life from across the State participated in the event at which 56 questions were raised and 527 written suggestions were received.
During the screening, nine lakh women were found vulnerable to cancer and selected samples were sent to district labs for cancer detection. A cancer grid system linking three cancer centres, cancer units at medical college hospitals and the district cancer care units has been put in place. A software, cancer care suite, has been developed for the comprehensive clinical lab examination of those vulnerable to cancer.
