The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, during a press briefing held to commemorate the 2020 World Cancer Day said that the number of deaths caused by cancer in the country annually is 72,000 while about 102,000 new cases of cancer are recorded annually.
Wife of the Ondo State governor, Mrs. Betty Anyawu-Akeredolu, on Thursday, lamented that the country ranked among countries with the poorest cancer care and control system. Speaking at the 2020 World Cancer Day in Akure, she pleaded that the government “must act without delay.” Akeredolu said that cancer “hitherto seen as a distant disease is now at our doorsteps causing unimaginable tears and sorrow in many families in Nigeria.”
Nigerians continue to express concern over the wild spread of Coronavirus. The disease which emerges from China has continued to reach countries such as United States of America (USA), Australia, Cambodia,Canada,Finland,France,Germany, Hong Kong,Japan and many countries such as Kenya and Ivory Coast in Africa.
Health authorities in Ivory Coast are investigating a suspected case of Wuhan coronavirus in a female student who arrived from China, officials have said. The student, whom authorities have not named, is the first person to be tested for the virus on the continent, CNN reports.
Mr Salisu Mu’azu, an acting permanent Secretary in Jigawa state Ministry of Health has confirmed this morning to Premium Times that another medical Doctor has been confirmed to have contracted Lassa fever in Jahun Local Government of the state. The Victim identified as, Anthony Etim, a staff of the Medicins Sans Frontieres also referred to as ‘Doctors without Borders’ has now being isolated in one of the treatment unit centre in Jahun Local Government of Jigawa state.
The Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health Services have expressed fears over the outbreak of Coronavirus in China. The Punch reports that the deadly disease, which broke out in the Asian nation sometime last month, has spread to eight countries including United States and Singapore, with over 800 people infected and 30 killed in the past few weeks.
