GENOTYPE FOUNDATION TO BEGIN
CAMPAIGN ON BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT IN 2017
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
DOING A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT AT A MEDICAL FACILITY
Officials of Lagos Not-For –Profit organization ,Genotype
Foundation have revealed exclusively in chat with The News Office Desk of
Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos ,Nigeria on the sidelines of its 2016 Annual
Quiz competition for Junior Schools held recently at the Lagos Airport Hotels
in Ikeja.
Officials of the agency said that they were already in high
level talks with officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health as regards
their massive plans for those suffering from sickle cell disorder.
Officials of the agency while thanking God for the recent
development in the treatment of sickle cell disorder noted that the 2017
campaign was surely going to put smiles on the faces of all involved in the big
fight.
The Quiz proper which had Ojodu Junior High School ,Lagos
Progressives and Birch Freeman Junior High School all slugging it out had Ojodu
High School carting away the first prize in the end but with the second and
third place schools also smiling home as everybody was a winner at the event.
The moderators of the Quiz Competition were Madam Doris
Gbemiloye,Executive Director of the Genotype Foundation,Miss Sonia Olagbegi,a
career educationist and Mr Elijah Gbenga.
It was learn t that
from Federal Ministry of Health research study ,85 percent of 15 years old do
not live due to the effects of sickle cell disorder.
In terms of epidemiology, mosquitoes when they bite a sickle
cell patient usually triggers of the crisis period as it aids the reduction in the
level of immunity
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