For the sixth consecutive year, the First Lady’s Office is carrying out activities to raise awareness of the importance of early detection of breast cancer. The activities will take place all throughout the month of October.
First Lady Candida Montilla said that every year around 6,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the Dominican Republic. She said a program of her office makes available free breast cancer tests and that since 2013 the program has reached out to around 100,000 women.
After the opening remarks of the October as Breast Cancer Month campaign in the Dominican Republic by the First Lady, Chilean women’s health specialist, Marcela Lechuga, gave a speech entitled, “Así es la vida”, focused on reminding the public of what is truly important in life.
The Chilean speaker compared life to a giant wave that at one point rises to its maximum fullness and in a blink of an eye fades away. “We forget that life is fragile and uncertain and we forget that there is no control over birth or death,” she said. Lechuga said there are two ways of being born: the natural one and by cesarean section. But there are five ways to die: traffic accident, sudden death, prolonged illness, homicide and suicide. She highlighted that when someone is prepared to die at any time it means that person is also prepared to live.
For the closing of the event, Milly Quezada sang several of her best hits and included a happy birthday song to First Lady Candida Montilla. She was joined by Pavel Núñez in duo and singing solo with his guitar.
Also participating in the event at the Convention Center of the Ministry of Foreign Relations were Cristina Lizardo, senator for the provine of Santo Domingo; Industry and Commerce Minister Nelson Toca; Minister of Women Janet Camilo; and Chanel Rosa Chupany, director of the National Health Service, among others.
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Listin Diario
El Dia
4 October 2018
