Stakeholders advocating for effective cancer treatment have called on government at all levels to implement free treatment of childhood cancer in all government hospitals.
The stakeholders made the call on Saturday in Abuja at a programme organised by Ndiassam Foundation, an NGO, to commemorate the 2025 childhood cancer day with the theme “Addressing the myth on childhood cancer”.
The stakeholders said that if treatment for childhood cancer was made free in all government hospitals, such burden would be reduced on parents.
a paediatric hemato-oncologist, Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, Ifeoma Ezeukwu said the greatest challenge limiting healthcare workers treatment on cancer patients was funding, saying management of cancer requires a lot of the parents struggling with funds. To even make a diagnosis to commence treatment, it is not available, but with the government presence, a lot of burden will be taken off the parents.
She advocated that cancer treatment for children should be free of charge, adding that, it will take a lot of burden off the parents.
Picture caption: 8th right, the club’s first charter president, Rotarian Mariam Ahmed Abdullahi; 9th right, Dr. Victor Onukua, Past District Governor of Rotary International District 9127 who also is a current serving member of the Council on Legislation for Rotary International while representing the current serving district governor, Mike Ukachi Nwanoshiri; 7th right Rabi Muhammad, the President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Urban among the newly chartered members of Rotary Club of Abuja Highrise on Saturday during the celebration Charter Presentation at pastoral Centre wuse ll, Abuja.
