Pap test awareness: Pap-A-Thon promotes women's health

South Bend, IN

It's an important test that could save a woman's life, a pap smear. But many don't have the tests done either because their too busy or don't have healthcare.

That's why the Women's Task Force at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center held a "pap-a-thon" Wednesday.

They performed free pap tests and enrolled women in need in a federal program that provides free healthcare.

Joan Lennon from the Women's Task Force says, "We are helping woman, many woman, young mothers often, who just don't have the resources or they have to put their children first and are not able to come in and get their screenings or other woman who find themselves without health insurance which happens to be a large population of our society today.

The tests were held at eight different sites across Michiana Wednesday. Nearly a thousand woman were tested.

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