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Ogun Govt. urges youths to seek genetic counseling before marriage
The Ogun State Government has urged the youths to seek genetic counseling before marriage in order to prevent birth of children with sickle cell disorder and other avoidable diseases. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, gave the advice during the foundation laying ceremony of a Sickle Cell Disorder Centre at the State Hospital, Ota on Tuesday, organised by…
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Sanwo-Olu inaugurates LASUTH Paediatric Sickle Cell Centre
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Friday inaugurated a Paediatric Sickle Cell Centre at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the centre was donated to LASUTH by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs). Sanwo-Olu said that the centre would provide a…
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Africa
Nigeria Records Breakthrough In Sickle Cell Treatment
Hope came the way of sickle cell patients weekend when the management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) completely drained infected red blood cells from a 27-year-old patient and replaced it with un-infected ones. Announcing the feat to journalists in a press conference, the chief medical director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Michael Ibadin, said the success was…
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