Ghana Football Association President, Kwesi Nyantakyi has been made a trustee of the first ever foundation to support thousands of Ghanaian cancer victims who cannot afford the high cost of treating the disease.

Kwesi Nyantakyi is a member of the three-member board of trustees of the Sweden-Ghana Cancer Foundation.

The other trustees are Dr Henry Broni-Amponsah, the Managing Director of the SGMC and founder and chairman of the SGCF and Lady Julia Osei Tutu, the wife of the Asantehene.

Under the trusteeship of three distinguished personalities, the foundation will restore hope to many a cancer victim with the view to saving lives, and also help the cause of an education campaign to sensitise the public to the early detection of the disease in order to minimise its consequences.

Former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor are also joining the Trustees to help to raise, at least, $5 million to support the treatment and awareness of cancer, which is fast becoming the number one killer disease in Ghana.

It is estimated that 1,300 new cases of different forms of cancer are reported in Ghana every month with many of the victims dying in due course, mainly because they either cannot afford the high cost of treatment or report the cases late for treatment or lack knowledge of the disease.

Donors to the foundation are requested to direct their contributions in the name of the Sweden-Ghana Cancer Foundation to Account Numbers 1050030953996 (Fidelity Bank) and 01610420001 (Bank of Africa).