Back Home, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has laid the foundation for the state’s Cancer and Diagnostic Facility, a legacy health project that the Governor said came with huge socioeconomic impacts for the state and the well-being of its people.
The facility is being funded with over two billion naira donation by the Abdul Samad Rabiu, ASR, Initiative which the Governor promised to give every support required to ensure the project is completed on time.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina El-Imam, in her remarks, said about one in four deaths in Nigeria is due to non-communicable diseases like cancers, commending AbdulRazaq for his foresight and how he succeeded in attracting the facility to the state.
El-Imam said the sitting of the oncology centre in the state will save Nigeria from its annual loss of multimillion dollars to medical tourism which is chiefly in search of cancer-related treatments abroad.
She said the government is similarly working out better welfare for other categories of health workers in the state.
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