Commissioner Tasks NÀWOJ On Health Awareness Campaigns

The State Commissioner for Health, Prof Chike Princewill has asked members of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NÀWOJ) in the State to intensify health awareness campaigns.
He gave the charge when the association paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
He said NÀWOJ members being mothers were in a better position to educate the women who patronise religious bodies and herbalists in search of healing.
He said some people die of simple sicknesses like diabetes, high blood pressure and even malaria that could have been easily managed.
Regretting the effects of various things women drink on their kidneys and liver cells to treat cancer, he hinted that the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike is passionate about saving lives and has shown so much commitment in the health sector.
Chike also said that the state government was very worried about the cancer incidence in the state which is why he is building a Cancer and Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Centre in the state.
He expressed dismay that so many women in the state had died of breast cancer largely because they resorted to drinking concoctions instead of seeking medical help, and urged NAWOJ to partner with the Ministry in educating women on health issues.
Earlier, the Chairman of NÀWOJ in the State, Mrs Susan Serekàra-Nwikhana had told the Commissioner that the association was in his office to intimate him of its discoveries during the two-week breast cancer awareness campaigns in the state.
She further told the Commissioner that so many women in the state are suffering from varying degrees of breast cancer and are unable to access treatments due to poverty, and appealed that the Ministry of Health assist those women to access free cancer treatments.