Throught the support of Housing Bank, the Jordanian Breast Cancer Program, one of the initiatives of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center, inaugurated the mobile mammography unit in the Karak Governorate.The inauguration ceremony was held in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer/Director General of King Hussein Cancer Center and Executive Chairperson of Jordan Breast Cancer Program Board, Dr. Asem Mansour, Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, Nisreen Qatamish, and the Vice president / marketing and corporate communications at Housing Bank, Ghadeer Barrishi, in addition to a number of personnel members from the Ministry of Health, concerned officials in Karak, media representatives, and several members of the mammography unit.

The support that the Housing Bank offers to the unit, falls under its strategic partnership with the King Hussein Cancer Foundation that spans over the years 2023-2024 within the extended partnership that ties both parties.

This partnership fall usnder the pillars of Housing Bank’s CSR program “Imkan by Iskan” within the health sector. aiming to  facilitate access to clinical and mammogram services and to provide diagnostics services to women outside Amman, according to the age group. Women will be able as well to get access to counseling through home visits, which will be coupled with implementing awareness activities to guide women to undergo early detection of breast cancer.The opening of this new mobile mammography unit will serve the purpose of materializing the main objectives of the Jordan Breast Cancer program namely promoting health awareness about breast cancer and the importance of early detection, correcting misconceptions, and changing behaviors, through various informative and educational tools and materials, in addition to opening the doors for workers in civil society organizations to obtain the necessary training to become specialized coordinators and qualified workers in the field of breast cancer awareness.

It is worth mentioning that the Housing Bank’s support of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation extends to include several programs mainly the annual charity ceremony where the proceeds are dedicated to support KHCF’s programs. The programs include as well, the Siwar Program, the University Scholarship Program to cover the costs of university students who are cancer patients, and the mobile mammography unit for breast cancer early detection.