DR Ekpe Phillips, Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), FCT chapter, has urged the Federal Government to establish at least one cancer centre in each state of the federation.
Phillips made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.
He stated that it would not be out of place to have cancer centres across the 36 states of the federation to make for easy accessibility for patients.
According to him, it is not too much if we are having one centre per state to forestall the hurdles being confronted by patients.
He also called for the training of personnel to help address the menace of cancer, stressing that granting of scholarship to health workers for such purpose will help curtail the scourge.
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“We must also encourage the training of personnel especially those in that particular area including granting them scholarship for those personnel in that field.
“The queue at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, National Hospital Abuja, and a few hospitals should end with the establishment of new cancer centres across the country.
“There was a Swedish cancer treatment that was meant for Nigeria, but because of political interest, they relocated to Ghana, this was some years back,’’ he said.
According to him, the government should encourage anything health to make Nigerians healthy.
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