NIGERIA (COMMONWEALTH UNION) – times are changing in Nigeria as the Nigerians decided to make a commitment to take control of cancer in the country. They made the decision to join the global cause to make a change when it comes to cancer.
Cancer has been growing in numbers in the last few years and there are a few variants and each one is a silent yet somewhat painful killer. On the 4th of February Nigeria came together with the rest of the world and celebrated and marked World Cancer Day which is an initiative done by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
This year the theme was “Close the Care Gap” which was to show that the cancer community should come together and be united in terms pf reducing the burden that the disease brings along with it.
The day was spent making sure awareness was spread in Nigeria how people can come together as a community and help diagnosed or even cancer survivors get through the burden that they carry which is the disease or the trauma that is left behind by the disease.
Most times when you survive the disease there is the trauma of survival. Post survival depression can tend to set in especially if you had bonded with people who had the disease as you and they did not survive. There has been a number of deaths in Nigeria because of this kind of depression.
Apart from this there has also been the families that struggle to accept the disease as a death sentence if one of their families were to get it. Or even to accept it once a loved one has passed away from the disease.
Nigeria is joining the fight to keep cancer at bay and to also make sure that for people who are faced with the disease in anyway that they are provided with all the support they need to get through this difficult period.
