Minister, APC Youth Leader Lead Walk Against Breast Cancer

Hundreds of young men and women person held a “Progress successful Pink Walk” to rise consciousness successful Nigeria connected bosom cancer.

The locomotion was organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Wing to people Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The four-kilometre walk, themed “Walk for Hope, Walk for Life,” commenced astatine The Nest Resource Centre, Abuja, wherever the participants advocated for aboriginal detection, timely aesculapian involution and instilling anticipation for those affected by the disease.

The run formed portion of a planetary effort to summation awareness, beforehand prevention and enactment individuals and families impacted by the disease.

The workout held astatine the play was led by APC nationalist younker leader, Dr Dayo Israel, who stressed the request for self-awareness and punctual enactment successful the combat against bosom cancer.

He said, “We joined the combat against puerility and teen cancer, commending President Bola Tinubu’s medication arsenic Nigeria’s archetypal to importantly put successful crab eradication. The 2025 fund represents the highest allocation for diagnosis and attraction we person ever seen. It’s captious for women to recognize their bodies and question contiguous aesculapian proposal if they announcement immoderate irregularities. Awareness and aboriginal detection tin prevention lives.”

The curate of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, praised the APC Youth Wing for its committedness to nationalist wellness advocacy.

He said 8 of 10 bosom crab cases successful Nigeria are ever diagnosed astatine a precocious signifier and urged the citizens to prioritise regular wellness check-ups, support steadfast lifestyles and clasp preventive attraction measures.

The president of the Nigerian Cancer Society, Prof. Abidemi Omonisi, said the illness accounts for 40-50% of each crab cases successful Nigeria and called for a community-based attack to crab awareness.

He lauded the APC Youth Wing for mobilising young radical to thrust affirmative alteration wrong their communities.

The “Progress successful Pink Walk” ended with escaped wellness screenings and a corporate pledge from participants to advocator for aboriginal detection, regular screenings, and steadfast surviving practices. The organisers reiterated that done awareness, unity and collaborative efforts, Nigerians tin marque important strides successful the combat against bosom cancer.