The Lagos Doyen Lions Club and the Dorcas Cancer Foundation (TDCF) has join the global celebration of Childhood Cancer Day to create awareness to support cancer-stricken children with cancer while paying a courtesy call and donating care kits to those afflicted with the disease at the Pediatric Oncology ward.
Alima Atta, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. Dr. Adedayo Joseph is the founder of TDCF claim the survival rate for juvenile cancer is between 80 and 90 percent in other nations, Nigeria is far from reaching similar figures due to a high rate of ignorance about the illness among the populace. In an effort to lessen the cancer pandemic in Nigeria, he has urged managers of the economy to make awareness investments.
“N945,000 was the allocated budget for today’s event even though the particular target was not met but there was a significant progress. September is kid Cancer Awareness Month because most people do not think that kid cancer is common. Our continued ignorance prevents us from recognizing the warning signals in time.
Okey Egbuchu, the president of the Lagos Doyen Lions Club, also stated that the club was a humanitarian organization whose goals was to end childhood cancer, supplying supplies for disaster assistance, fighting starvation, blindness, and promoting youth empowerment.
Onari Duke, the chairman of the Child Survival and Development Organization of Nigeria, has also commented on the organization’s goal of reducing the country’s newborn and maternal mortality rates.
