Posted on: Fri 27-11-2020

The newly elected President of the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), Danjuma Adda, has reiterated his determinations to work  round the clock to make available to hepatitis patients in Taraba state and Nigeria at large quality and affordable treatments.

Adda who was recently elected as the world president of the alliance , as observed by our correspondent, is also the Executive Director of the Centre For Iniatiative and Delopment (CFID), a non governmental organization that has in the past decades been at the forefront of eliminating hepatitis in the state and the country at large. 

 

Speaking at the flagged off of community Hepatitis Elimination Programme which coincided with the 

inauguration Ceremony of its new Secretariat and diagonistic centre which is located in Jalingo,  the state capital, the WHA President , said the dream of the organization was to ensure that everybody has access to quality and affordable screening and treatment of hepatitis 

Stressing that CFID is presently in partnership with numerous pharmcitical organizations, his NGO as stated by him  would offer services at 50 per cent discount and free services for indigent patients.

Adda who viewed the inauguration 9f the Centre as "a historic day for us as an NGO" said the Centre would tread extra legitimate miles to  eliminate hepatitis not only from the state and the country but from the globe at large. 

 Vehemently ready to use the Centre in heralding Hope's on the faces of the hopeless, the Centre as stated by him 

has gone as far as  purchasing modern equipment for speedy screening and treatment of hepatitis and other liver problems for a healthy society.
 

Paying tribute to his late mother whom according to him died of  hepatitis in 2007, he reiterated his determinations to work tirelessly round the clock to ensure that no one die of the disease any more.

The WHA President who said the Centre has resolved to provide quality care that can be access by all patients irrespective of economic and political status,  also pledged to use his position as president, world hepatitis alliance to enhance the fight against the menance in Nigeria.

Elated by the development,  the council chairman of Jalingo local government Alhaji Abdulnaseer Boboji, commended the CIFD for making quality health care services accessable and affordable for the people of the state and Nigeria.

Overwhelmed by the Centre's achievements which paved way to Adda emerging as the global President of WHA, speakers ranging from traditional rulers,  commissioners to academians,  believed that the diagnostic centre would go along way to ignite the presence of hepatitis patients from the nooks and crannies of the country to the state .

The center which our correspondent noticed has been equipped with state of the art facilities,  would no doubt dry of the drooling tears on the faces of hepatitis patients in the state, but would as well save them the stresses of traveling several kilometers to access treatments in other parts of the country. 

The event which also  featured free screening and treatment of no fewer than 20 patients, was described by patients who bared their minds to our correspondent as the "best thing that has ever happened to us."

By Charles Akpeji 

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