{"id":116343,"date":"2025-02-13T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116343"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:30:44","slug":"japa-one-doctor-attending-to-over-1800-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/japa-one-doctor-attending-to-over-1800-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Japa: \u2018One Doctor\u00a0 Attending To Over 1,800 Cancer\u00a0 Patients\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian Cancer Society ( NCS) says the high rate of health worker-migration\u00a0 popularly called \u2018 Japa\u2019 syndrome is\u00a0 impacting on the number of oncologists attending to cancer patients in the country.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nPresident of the society, Prof. Abidemi Emmanuel Omonisi, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the society\u2019s commemoration of the World Cancer Day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOncologists are doctors specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers.<br \/>\nProf. Omonisi said poor remuneration, poor infrastructure, insecurity, low standard of living and inadequate funding for the healthcare system, among others has led to migration of radiation and clinical oncologists, pathologists, oncology nursing\u00a0 and other categories of health workers .<\/p>\n<p>Quoting the\u00a0Association of Radiation and Clinical Oncologists of Nigeria (ARCON), a corporate member of the Nigerian Cancer Society, Prof. Omonisi said the ideal ratio of a radiation and clinical oncologist to cancer patient is 1: 250 \u2013 500,\u00a0 but that the ratio of the radiation and clinical oncologist to cancer patients in Nigeria is presently\u00a0 1: 1, 800.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe said, \u201cThis accounted for the increasing long queues observed in all our oncology clinics in the country. I wish to specially appeal to the President and Commander in- chief of the Federal Government of Nigeria to address the push and pull factors responsible for the exodus of skilled health workers from the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the society has observed\u00a0 the increasing incidence of some neglected cancers in Nigeria such as colo-rectal cancer, childhood, ovarian, and hematological cancers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf. Omonisi said the federal government over the years has been focusing on prostate, breast and cervical cancers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe called on the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, to pay serious attention to the neglected cancers in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe NCS president also\u00a0 enjoined the National Assembly to appropriate N25 billion for the transition of the National Cancer Health to a Catastrophic Health Insurance Fund,\u00a0 adding\u00a0 \u201c\u201dFurthermore, NCS implores the National Assembly and the Federal Government to appropriate additional funds to close 97.2 billion Naira funding gag in the National Oncology Initiative. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>The NCSs president also\u00a0 said he has established the society\u2019s\u00a0 chapters in all the states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), adding that, \u201cThe 2025 edition is marked in a unique way as for the first time in the history of Nigeria, the Nigerian Cancer Society officially launched the Youth Arm of our Society known as Youth Coalition Against Cancer (YOCAC).\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProgram Manager, Girl Effect Nigeria, Chinelo Okonkwo, said cervical\u00a0 cancer is one of the major cancers that needs to be tackled in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nShe said human papillomavirus (HPV)\u00a0 \u00a0is a significant public health issue adding that increasing the vaccination rate is crucial to preventing cervical cancer and other HPV related cancers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Cancer Society ( NCS) says the high rate of health worker-migration\u00a0 popularly called \u2018 Japa\u2019 syndrome is\u00a0 impacting on the number of oncologists attending to cancer patients in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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