FG procuring cancer diagnostic equipment

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BY FATI MUSA MARTE, MAY 26, 2022 | 02:29 PM


The Federal Government of Nigeria is providing cancer diagnostic devices across the six geo-political zones of the country.  

  Cancer cases are becoming so rampant in Nigeria.  

  A study by Lagos State University Teaching hospital has shown that Nigeria records 72, 000 deaths out of 102, 000 cases annually.  

Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government of the federation who disclosed the government's plan, said it is aimed at alleviating the plight of cancer patients in the country.

    Mustapha disclosed this while speaking to the delegation of Katsina State Elders’ Forum led by its chair, Senator Abba Sani.  

'I want to assure you that government will do everything possible to ensure that these contracts which were meant to provide cancer equipments in different parts of this country: six of them in one lot are expeditiously dealt with and procured for the benefit and for the good of our people,’ said Mustapha in a statement on Wednesday by Willie Bassey, spokesman to the office secretary to the federal government.

According to Bassy, Mustapha said the intervention is necessary due to the scourge of cancer ravaging many Nigerians, especially in the northern part of the country, where access to cancer diagnostic devices is limited.  

  'And like I said, I would in my own capacity as a Secretary to Council to ensure that the needful is done so that papers with regard to the six contracts for which a procurement ought to have been concluded, are concluded expeditiously in record time to ensure that we do not have the resources that have already been budgeted and have been released to the institutions revert back to the national treasury,’ he added.  

Mustapha was responding to the chairman of the forum who sought the support of the federal government to facilitate the release of funds approved for the Federal Teaching Hospital Katsina to procure Radiotherapy/ Oncology equipment for the treatment of cancer.

  The chairman buttressed the request with a report of research carried out by histopathology that depicted the prevalence of cancer in Katsina, with its epicenter at Daura zone.

  The chairman noted that the report was a picture of the plight of their people, which underpinned their visit to seek for federal government’s intervention to fast track the release of the funds to enable the teaching hospital utilize to assuage the plight of their people.              


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