Free screening of cervical cancer to be limited to a few local units of 11 districts due to insufficient funds

The budget for free screening can purchase around 130,000 test kits. This means onlythat number of women can be screened, says chief of the reproductive health section.

Providing free screening for cervical cancer from state-run health facilities across the country was among the measures the government outlined in its annual policies and programmes of the fiscal year 2023-24 to prevent deaths of women from the disease.