A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examiners
this year of tactile examinations on 1,338 women found 78% of malignant cancers were detected and only 1% missed.in 2019 comparing the diagnostic accuracy of doctors and visually impaired MTEs found “clinical breast exams by MTEs with impaired vision appear to have an accuracy level similar to that of examinations by physicians or a combination of both”.The human toll of non-communicable diseases is huge and rising.
NCDs, once seen as illnesses of the wealthy, now have a grip on the poor. Disease, disability and death are perfectly designed to create and widen inequality – and being poor makes it less likely you will be diagnosed accurately or treated. In low-income countries NCDs – typically slow and debilitating illnesses – are seeing a fraction of the money needed being invested or donated. Attention remains focused on the threats from communicable diseases, yet cancer death rates have long sped past the death toll from malaria, TB and HIV/Aids combined.
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