Lagos Partners UNFPA to Tackle Cancer
Lagos State Government re-affirmed its commitment to partner the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to ensure that the state minimises cases of cancer among residents while lamenting low sensitisation of the people.
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The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who was represented by Director, Disease Control Directorate in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Rotimi Agbolagborite stated this at the breast and cervical cancer screening capacity building workshop organised by the ministry and UNFPA. The workshop was for 200 state healthcare workers drawn from LASUTH, 15 general hospitals and 44 primary health centres.
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According to Abayomi, statistics has shown that the prevalence and incidence of breast cancer are on the increase, adding that this informed the need to heighten the level of awareness across the communities.
He said the ministry’s efforts at making cancer screening services more accessible and readily available in all state health facilities had been further strengthened with the recent support from UNFPA.
