Browsing: Sickle cell anaemia

The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary) at plenary on Tuesday.

Funke Bucknor Obruthe, the sister of late On Air Personality and actress, Tosin Bucknor, has attributed her death to complications arising from sickle cell anaemia.

Nigeria has the largest population of people with the Sickle Cell Disease in the world, with over 150,000 babies born…

Akanmu, who is the Head, Haematology and Blood Transfusion Department, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos

Nosakhare, who works at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Edo State, said that there was a cure for Sickle Cell Disease through bone marrow transplant