Ahmed Mohammed
8 November 2009
Jos — Plateau state government has reiterated its commitment to build cancer screening centers in each of the three senatorial zones of the state.
Governor Jonah David Jang stated this yesterday while flagging-off the cancer awareness campaign in the state. He said government is worried by the prevalence of cervical cancer in the state and observed that if adequate measure is not put in place to check the disease would affect the teeming citizens of the state as a responsible government will not fold their arms and watch its citizens dying."
He said his administration has enter into arrangement with a German company to build a specialized hospital that would not only cater for Plateau indigence patience but the whole of the country and when materialized the hospital would be of global standard.
Governor Jang said in 18 months Government will equipped three referral hospitals to meet up with the standard of referral hospitals.
He lamented the high cost of treating cancer in the country which he said is between the ranges of one hundred and fifty to one million naira per treatment saying the amount was an enormous to the majority of the nation's populace.
The initiator of the campaign and wife the Plateau state Governor Mrs Talatu Jang regretted that world over cancer is biting harder, particularly amongst women adding that in some developed countries the prevalent is declining due to public awareness and early screening.
According to her, the aim of the programme was to raise awareness on the danger of cancer in the state which her pet-project will in conjunction with other NGOs would mobilize women in the state to access the free screening that government will soon provide.
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