Pharmaceutical groups should help expand access to cancer drugs — Dr Ehanire - Enjoy this Awesome Report

 Pharmaceutical groups should help expand access to cancer drugs — Dr Ehanire

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, tasked pharmaceutical groups to come up with modalities that would help the government to expand access to cancer drugs in the country.

Ehanire said this in his address at a Strategic Stakeholders’ Engagement with Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Companies in Abuja, organised by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The minister said that the government was worried by the number of cancer cases traumatising people in all age brackets.

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