Share The member representing Ede North and Ede South in the House of Representatives, Hon Bamidele Salam (PDP-OSUN) on Wednesday lamented that over 40 million Nigerians who are carriers of the sickle cell gene have no easy access to quality health care in the country. Hon Salam made the revelation in Abuja while speaking at a public hearing on five health-related bills before the House The lawmaker whose bill which seeks to establish the National Agency for Sickle Cell disease and other heritable blood disorder for the treatment, prevention, control, management of and research on sickle cell disease and other heritable blood disorder in Nigeria said Nigerians suffering from the ailment deserved quality attention like others.