Prostate Cancer: Don Urges N’ Assembly to Enact Law to Allow Free Medical Treatment for Aged

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Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

Former Chief Medical Director of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Professor Sulyman Kuranga, has called on the National Assembly to enact a law that would allow the aged in Nigeria to access free medical treatment for prostatic diseases.

According to him, in the developed world, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United State, when one attains the age of 60 years, transport and medical services are obtained free of charge. The aged are put into consideration when laws are being formulated.”

Kuranga, who is also a Professor of Urology stated this yesterday while delivering the 180th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ilorin held at the main auditorium of the institution described prostate cancer as an “epidemic in waiting”.

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