Despite efforts by the government and the private sector to reduce cancer mortality in Nigeria through the Cancer Health Fund (CHF), indigent Nigerians continue to suffer and die from cancer due to high cost of treatment as only 20 patients have benefited from the fund since inception.
This is even as the dearth of oncologists pose a threat to cancer treatment in the country as experts express worry that the cost of treatment and dearth of oncologists could mar the efforts of the government in tackling the cancer scourge in the country. The Cancer Health Fund (CHF) programme was established through advocacy by some private institutions to the federal government to set up a special fund initially called catastrophe fund
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