NIGERIANS ARE DYING OF CANCER, WHO WILL COME TO THEIR RESCUE?

Radiation treatment is a major component of cancer treatment. United Nations estimated that more than half of all people with cancer will need radiation treatment to achieve long term control or cure. It went ahead to recommend one radiation treatment equipment to a maximum of 250000 people.

Nigeria is the most populous African country with estimated 180 million people. We have the highest cancer burden in Africa, yet we have about the fewest number of radiation treatment machines per unit population at almost 20 million people to one machine.

Sadly the eight radiation treatment machines in Nigeria are bedeviled with frequent breakdown and unavailable spare parts. Many cancer patients are unable to receive required treatment and those who are lucky have to wait for up to a year or more. By this time their cancer would advanced and many would have died.

Nigeria need urgent intervention to procure more radiation treatment machines to stem the tide of untimely deaths due to cancer among our people.

Money used to buy one bullet proof jeep can buy a radiation treatment machine that can treat millions of people.

I call on our respected President, Mohammadu Buhari, all his lieutenants, members of the National Assembly, the State Governors and kind hearted Nigerian philanthropists to come to the aid of our people. Nigerians are needlessly dying of cancer, PLEASE COME TO OUR RESCUE.

Kindly help share until this gets to the right ears.

AAA
Advocating for the Nigerian cancer patients.

@Lalasticlala. Front page please. Cancer is ravaging our people.

This one weak me. e remain to cry