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Climb On Board The Pink Bus
CLOVERDALE REPORTER
The issue of breast health will be highlighted in, inter alia, Punjabi, during the Cloverdale Rodeo (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) on Friday and Saturday, when the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Tour bus makes an appearance.
The bus will be at the rodeo and fairgrounds Friday, May 20 from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and all day Saturday, from 10 a.m. top 11 p.m.
Visitors are welcome inside to tour the bus and read more about breast health in three languages - English, Punjabi and Chinese. The bus, a mammography and breast health education centre on wheels, is touring more than 50 B.C. communities.
Staff will guide visitors through displays and encourage women between the ages of 40 and 79 to book a free mammogram in their communities.
Women registering at the Pink Bus will be contacted by the Screening Mammography Program of B.C. to arrange a mammogram appointment.
Conversation about this article
1: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), May 20, 2011, 11:51 AM.
A friend of mine is a Gynaecologist and a Rotarian. As a community project, he had organized a camp and offered free pap-smear examinations. A nurse brought her elderly mother to have her first ever pap-smear. She was perhaps 80 and the daughter at least 60. The daughter persuaded her mother to have the first pelvic examination. After the examination, and to lighten things up, the doctor commented: "Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?" The old lady said, "No, it wasn't, but I do have one question to ask you." "Go ahead," he said. "Does your mother know what you do for a living?"
2: Gurmeet Kaur (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.), May 21, 2011, 10:21 AM.
Sangat Singh ji, I can't imagine sikhchic.com without your stories. You are the best short storyteller ever.