To manage a cancer patient from diagnosis to stabilisation, one would need an average of N16 million to N20 million.
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Looking at this scenario, the truth is that the country is still far from making access to cancer care easy for patients. Even where those facilities are available, the cost of managing cancer is another obstacle patients have to battle with. To commence chemotherapy for breast cancer, the drugs per month is almost N1.5 million, which average Nigerians cannot afford.
The Cancer Health Fund is also another existing policy, but most stakeholders, especially cancer survivors, are not satisfied with how the CHF is being implemented. There are serious challenges with accessing the fund by cancer patients who really need it.Truth is cancer patients have experienced difficulty accessing the health fund. The Nigerian government had good intentions setting up that fund but the problem we have is implementation and government bureaucracy.
It is important to state that there are some cancers that are killing Nigerians now. An example of such cancer is colorectal cancer which is the second most common cancer among males in Nigeria. It is sad to mention that colorectal cancer is affecting our younger ones. Furthermore, Nigerians are coming down and dying from hematological malignancies which are also not covered by the National Cancer Fund managed by the Federal Government.
The state’s executives have also been directed to develop a database for cancer stakeholders in their states and also work very closely with their respective states ministry of health. The Nigerian Cancer Society under my leadership is also willing to partner with the state governments, to help them develop their State Cancer Control Plan. We cannot sit down and watch Nigerians continue to die from cancer especially, the preventable ones.
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