{"id":43591,"date":"2026-08-24T07:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43591"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:19:05","slug":"cancer-outreach-draws-hundreds-in-rural-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cancer-outreach-draws-hundreds-in-rural-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer outreach draws hundreds in rural Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate patients travelled hundreds of kilometres across Zimbabwe to access free cancer screening and medical care as a volunteer-driven outreach hit a major rural mission hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organised by private voluntary organisation CancerServe Zimbabwe, the medical drive reached 267 people at Karanda Mission Hospital in Mashonaland Central. Patients travelled from as far as Gweru and Marondera, journeys spanning up to 300 kilometres, highlighting the severe financial barriers and regional gaps in specialized oncology care across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outreach provided free health consultations, specialised screenings, and clinical assessments designed to catch malignancies early, when treatment is most effective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s heartening to know that there are some people who came as far as from Gweru and Marondera for this outreach, which means this is something that is absolutely necessary,&#8221; said leading Oncologist Dr Anna-Mary Nyakabau, founder and Chief Executive of CancerServe Zimbabwe. &#8220;So far we can afford to do this at least once a year. However, if resources permit, we would like to do it more often.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To ensure patients identified with advanced conditions receive long-term care, a team of surgeons led by Specialist will conduct follow-up visits to Karanda Mission Hospital to perform necessary surgical interventions on referred patients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15378,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43591","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Free cancer outreach reaches 267 in Zimbabwe","published_date":"2026-08-24 07:08:22","news_description":"Free cancer outreach reaches 267 in Zimbabwe","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43592,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43591\/revisions\/43592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}