Nostra Cancer Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in
Lagos and founded by a Nasopharyngeal cancer survivor Mr. Frank Aja
Ukpabi is set to break the ground of its recently acquired 6 plots of
land in Epe, area of Lagos for its proposed holistic and up-to-date
cancer treatment centre to help cancer patients in Nigeria beat cancer
and have a second chance at life like its founder.
Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, the secretary of Nostra
Cancer Foundation’s board of trustees, Dr. Ofonime Udoh, a
nephrologist, said the cancer treatment centre that Nostra Cancer
Foundation wants to build is the vision of its founder who had severe
head pain from Dec 2005 to April 2006 which could not be diagnosed
despite visiting several hospitals in Lagos including the two teaching
hospitals and who may have passed on if not for God and MTN Nigeria
which flew him to South Africa in April 2006 where his condition was
diagnosed and treated.
She said even in 2017, cancer is still difficult to be diagnosed early
and treated in Nigeria hence you see those that can afford it travel
abroad for proper diagnosis and treatment while those who cannot most
times die painful deaths here with some seeing it as an attack from
their enemies. Ofonime said Nostra cancer foundation is here to bridge
that gap by building a holistic and up to date cancer treatment centre
that will meet international standards and cater for the needs of those
that are down with cancer in Nigeria and parts of Africa where there are
none.
Ofonime said the Cancer treatment centre will be a 50 bed Centre with
wards for males, females, and children. It will be equipped with a state
of the art laboratory; CT scan machines; MRI machines; mammograms;
radiotherapy suites; chemotherapy suites; a well-stocked pharmacy along
with consulting rooms and ancillary lounges all aimed at ensuring early
and accurate diagnosis, treatment and post-treatment care of people with
cancer in Nigeria.
The centre upon completion, according to her, will be manned by well
experienced medical personnel with affiliation to cancer management,
foreign and home-based
She calls on kind-hearted Nigerians, corporate bodies and even religious
bodies who share this same dream of reducing the number of
cancer-related deaths in Nigeria to join forces with Nostra Cancer
Foundation to see that this Cancer Treatment centre becomes a reality as
all hands are needed on the deck here with Cancer cases rising in
Nigeria every day and a lot of people dying untimely and painful deaths.
The ground breaking ceremony takes place on the 24th of June by 1pm at
the project site by Lagos state Model College Igbonla, Epe Lagos. The
ceremony shall flag off the construction phase of this centre which
shall save lives now and in the future. Those that cannot make it to the
ground breaking event can visit our website at www.nostracancerfoundation.org and support this vision.
Cancer can happen to anyone which makes having a good and affordable
cancer treatment centre in a place like Nigeria with close to 200
million people a necessity.
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Ground breaking of proposed cancer treatment centre by Nosta Cancer Foundation
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