Breast Care International (BCI) has pleaded with the government to adopt legislation and rules to make sure that pastors don't apply remedies or other breast cancer therapies.
Churches in Rwanda and Kenya are closely controlled, which is producing a lot of beneficial effects, says Dr. Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, the organization's president, and Ghana should follow suit.
She claims that since there is no evidence that witchcraft or any other supernatural activity causes breast cancer, patients should always seek medical attention rather than spending the night in prayer camps and expecting to be healed.
Dr. Wiafe-Addai stated at the breast cancer sensitization and screening program at the Great Glory Ministries in Kumasi that many vulnerable women who attend prayer camps end up in the hospital.
Some radio and television preachers assert that they can use spiritual deliverance to treat the illness in a couple of days.
As a result, many women have been convinced to go to prayer camps for care rather than go to hospitals for appropriate medical care.
She said that by using concoctions, pastors are slowly murdering a lot of disadvantaged women in their congregations.
She said that the pastors convince the patients that only prayers will cure their ailments rather than urging them to go to the hospital.
"The preachers ought to be aware of the fact that many women are being murdered." Women are spending money by traveling to prayer retreats and purchasing all of those items.
They had no money left over by the time they got to the hospital. "So, I beg you, send them to the hospitals," she said.
The Peace and Love Hospital has made a significant contribution to the fight against breast cancer in Ghana, according to Prophet Collins Kwame Kesseh, the founder and leader of the Great Glory Ministries.
He asked his colleague and pastors to stop holding vulnerable and innocent women captive in their churches to treat them.
Pastors should let patients get medical attention from hospitals, he urged, even though spiritual deliverance is of the utmost importance.
Despite knowing full well that prayers alone cannot cure the ailment, Mr. Kesseh claimed it is unjust and unchristian for pastors to detain women at prayer camps while depleting their finances.
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