Childhood cancer: Federal Government to provide the political will to reduce deaths among children.

 

 

To mark this year’s World Childhood Cancer Month, experts have called on the
Federal Government to provide the political will to reduce deaths among children with cancer by subsidizing their treatments.

Making the call in Lagos, the experts who spoke during the Annual Walkathon of Children Living With Cancer Foundation, CLWCF, said there was also the need to provide health insurance for the children.

Nwaobbi who identified lack of funds and ignorance about childhood cancers as major challenges in the last 20 years of her championing the course of children living with cancer in Nigeria said the cure rate in Nigeria was still low.

Nwaobbi who regretted that many Nigerians are still ignorant that children also suffer from cancer said the walk which began from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, to the National Stadium and back to LUTH was organised to create awareness on the disease.

Acknowledging the need for more awareness of the fact that children can still have cancer, Fakile advised parents that not every fever is malaria or typhoid, hence, the need for parents to take their children to a doctor when they are experiencing unexplainable conditions.