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Nigeria, with 19.9 million FGM survivors, accounts for the third-highest number of girls and women who have undergone FGM worldwide, according to UNICEF.
Nigeria is estimated to record over 115,000 new cancer cases every year, experts reveal. Mr Amit Chaturvedi of the Apollo Proton Cancer Center, APCC in
World Health Day 2021: Towards A Fairer, Healthier Nigeria, By Laz Eze How can we build a fairer and healthier Nigeria? Most of the solutions are actually outside the health sector. ADVERTISEMENT …achieving a fairer and healthier Nigeria has more to do with the overall quality of leadership and governance than what happens in the hospitals, despite the huge importance of the latter. Nigeria has some of the best health policies and technical briefs but their implementation have been largely profligate and disheartening. Today, April 7, is World Health Day. The global theme announced by the W...
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