The District 9125 Governor for the Rotary International, Mrs Jumoke Bamigboye, has said the club will join forces with the government and other health organisations to end hepatitis in Nigeria like po
liomyelitis
She said, “Hepatitis is a silent killer with more than 1.3m deaths a year and it affects more than 325m people globally. According to the World Health Organisation, about 2.8 million people in the world are on lifelong treatment for hepatitis B. “As Rotarians, we support the campaign against hepatitis. Our target is to get the Hepatitis level zero in Nigeria. We do not want Nigerians to die from this preventable virus.”
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