Cancer Society Reaffirms Support For Survivors, Engages Patients In Rivers

The Nigerian Cancer Society (NCS) has reaffirmed its committedness to improving survivorship enactment for crab patients nationwide, portion unveiling caller initiatives to fortify advocacy and care.

As portion of his ongoing nationwide engagement with survivors, NCS President Professor Abidemi Omonisi made this known during an interactive league with crab survivors successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

He urged the national government, the backstage sector, and planetary partners to enactment the Society’s efforts successful addressing the rising outgo and scarcity of indispensable crab drugs, a situation worsened by the withdrawal of respective pharmaceutical companies from Nigeria.

Highlighting cardinal initiatives nether his leadership, Omonisi announced the constitution of a Survivorship Committee to code post-treatment needs and power policy, practice of survivors astatine each levels of NCS governance, stressing that “no determination should beryllium made without involving crab survivors.”

The motorboat of the Nigerian Coalition for Cancer Survivors (NCCS), a level to support the rights and payment of survivors nationwide, and the instauration of the National Cancer Intervention Fund (NCS-NCIF) Governing Council, with a people of raising ₦100 cardinal to enactment crab attraction nationwide.

He explained that the assembly volition beryllium chaired by Dr Gafar Alawode, a nationalist wellness doc and wellness concern expert, and volition see 2 crab survivors.

Encouraging participants, Prof. Omonisi said: “In the NCS, we person survivors who person lived 20, 25, adjacent 28 years post-diagnosis and are inactive going strong. Death is acold distant from you. Keep anticipation alive. We volition not wantonness you.”

The Port Harcourt lawsuit was attended by crab survivors and advocates, including the Chairman of NCS Lagos, Princess Tinu Lawal, and the laminitis of Atinuke Cancer Foundation, Dr Peace Ogaranya. The President of the Youth limb of NCS (YOCAC), Ethel Olomu, laminitis of Engraved Life Foundation, and crab advocator Funmi Ojo besides attended.

Survivors astatine the forum expressed gratitude for the NCS president’s compassionate enactment but raised concerns astir gaps successful crab attraction successful the State. These see the lack of radiotherapy services, deficiency of immunohistochemistry facilities, delays caused by having lone 1 radiation and objective oncologist successful the state, and non-access to the National Cancer Health Fund (NCHF).

They besides lamented the precocious outgo of medications, which often leads to attraction abandonment.

Princess Lawal, who shared her travel arsenic a survivor, encouraged participants to stay resilient and advocator for amended crab attraction successful Nigeria.