The Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUIH), Dr, Chris Bode, has called on Nigerians and women in particular, to patronise the country's healthcare facilities for the prevention of cancer, saying that it was more convenient and cheaper since he manpower and wherewithal were available.
Bode who made this known recently, during the commissioning and handover of one stop breast cancer clinic, an initiative of Run for Cure Africa, in Lagos, argued that travelling abroad was not the best and that it was affordable to be treated in any pubic hospital where government has already subsidised treatment.
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According to him, "It is still cheaper to get treated in your own country by your people when you have any ailment. Now that we have the facilities here, travelling abroad is not the best, you already have what you are looking for. We nave the manpower and the wherewithal. What we expect s that we have what it takes:0 treat most conditions in "Jigeria. Lets us rebuild the xmfidence in what we have, Ne are not perfect yet but weire working towards it. When you get treated for a oondition like canrer abroad, no matter what, they will still tell you to go home to oontinue the treatment The cost of treatment and staying abroad is more expensive. When you are in Nigeria, your relations will be there in the hospital to visit you. We should hope for the best in Nigeria that many good things are happening," he said.
For women who are battling with breast canrer and depends on traditional medicine, he advised them to go for yearly breast cancer screening, saying, flit's simple. They should start from personal examinatiro daily or weekly. If you notice a lump in your breast or discharge, you have to come to !he centre to be examined. Get examined yearly too by a doctor so that if there is any lump, they will test it If it cancerous, they will treat it.
Breast canrer when noticed very early has very good outoome. It is when you leave it and when it gets too late it becomes incurable." The Executive Director of Run for Cure Africa Breast Cancer Foundation, Mrs Ebele Mbanugo, said the programme was designed to commemorate the International Women's Day and that it was a clinic where women can come for breast cancer treatment and any issue related to the breast.
By: Funml Ogunclare
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