A group, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP-Nigeria), has called on stakeholders to commit adequate resources towards the acquisition of Mobile Cancer Centres (MCCs) across the country to facilitate cancer prevention through screening and early treatment at the grassroots.
The group made the call at the weekend in a statement signed by its Executive Secretary, Dr Abia Nzelu, while reacting to the death in recent times of some prominent Nigerians who were victims of cancer.
Former Director- General of the Centre for Democratic Studies, Prof Omo Omoruyi, died of prostate cancer on October 13; Mustapha Amego popularly known as Funky Mallam, one of Nigerian's foremost entertainers and former President of Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), died of colon cancer on October 24 and former Chief of General Staff, Vice- Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, died of throat cancer on October 28.
The group said that despite receiving treatments in the United States, the trio did not survive because of late detection.
This is nothing but the very truth.
Cancer must be fully eradicated once and for all......