Cancer patients' access to treatment centres made easier by sponsored transportation

In wrapping up the month of World Breast Cancer, Campaigning for Cancer has begun the Fika Phila Project, which transports cancer patients to and from treatment centres, as the last three years have not been kind to cancer patients.

The project currently caters to three public hospitals: Baragwaneth, Charlotte Maxeke and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.

Lauren Pretorius, the CEO of Campaigning for Cancer, said that access to treatment was almost impossible during the early months of the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which severely restricted individuals' movement.