A non-governmental organisation in Kaduna State, Kunak Foundation, has called on the federal and state governments to establish and equip free cancer treatment centres to alleviate the plight of cancer patients.
The chief executive officer of the organisation, Barrister Gloria Bavoshiya Nyan, made the call while speaking to newsmen on the 16 years anniversary of providing assistance to cancer patients.
She expressed concern why other illnesses were receiving more attention while cancer, which has more devastating effects on the body systems of affected persons does not get such attention.
According to her, the organisation had supported 48 patients out of which only four could not survive largely because they couldn’t keep to terms.
Bavoshiya said she is a cancer survivor, something that inspired her to establish the foundation after realising that less privileged people cannot survive the scourge.
“The less privileged hardly survive, there is a TB centre, there is HIV/AIDS centres but there is no centre for cancer patients to get free treatment.
“I initiated the NGO because while I was diagnosed with cancer, I almost died because of the strike at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) then,” she said.
