University of Ibadan Alumni Association is to establish cancer diagnostic Centre at the University College Hospital in Ibadan.
The project would gulp two billion naira.
President of the Association, worldwide, Professor Elsie Adewoye told newsmen that the money would be realized through partnership with public-spirited organizations, individuals, institutions and agencies within six months.
Professor Adewoye explained that the objective of financing the cancer diagnostic Centre was to appreciate the knowledge which the University of Ibadan had passed on them and to underscore the need for synergy in combating the disease.
He said between 2005 and 2015, study showed that cancer cases rose by 17%.
Professor Adewoye also envisaged that by 2030, newly diagnosed cases would have risen by 68%.
While further estimating that cancer caused 8.8million deaths globally in 2015, the ailment according to her cost the world the sum of 1.16 trillion dollars in 2010.
Professor Adewoye attributed the growing rise in the illness in Nigeria to the cost of treatment, fear to speak out by victims, lack of access to medical facilities and absence of oncological and diagnostic centres.
He noted that the cost of treatment of cancer cases at the Centre would be affordable to all Nigerians.
Reacting, the Chief Medical Director, CMD, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Professor Jesse Otegbayo, represented by a Professor of Radiation Oncology UCH, Professor Adeniyi Adenipekun, said UCH had professional oncologists who would be engaged in the treatment of cancer.
Rotimi Famakin
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