NGOs advocate care, compassion for cancer patients
By Speak4life Cancer Prevention Initiative (SCPI) and Arewa Youth Trust Foundation (AYTF) have urged Nigerians to show care, love and compassion to cancer victims in the country.
The Executive Officers of SCPI and AYTF, Miss Malextive Abeeikyaa and Alhaji Fahad Ahmed-Chikaji, respectively, made the plea while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after a visit to cancer victims at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUH) in Shika, Kaduna State on Monday.
Ahmed-Chikaji said the essence of the visit was to present some gifts to the victims with a view to giving them a sense of belonging.
He said: “After my experience with people battling with cancer, I started finding means to support people with such ailments.
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“The visit was informed by a wonderful collaborative initiative aimed at assisting patients with advanced cancer and their families.
“The visit also seek to provide appropriate physical, emotional, social and spiritual support to cancer patients and their families.”
Ahmed-Chikaji said the visit featured a group of like-minded volunteers, who provided much-needed information, support and meaningful care to people with advanced cancer.
Also speaking, Abeeikyaa said the collaboration had yielded positive results toward encouraging the patients to face their condition bravely.
“It is with great pleasure and privilege that we had the most amazing of beautiful time spent with very special people who weren’t expectant but were given the best of raw love in its purest form from ordinary simple beings.
“My heart was filled with so many emotions towards all of them because each and every one of them matters to us and we need them to be back on their feet in sound health soon by God’s grace.
“We love them and will continue to tell and show the world how true love can be shown,” she added.
A cross section of patients interviewed expressed gratitude to the organisations for their support and motivation.
NAN reports that the NGOs, apart from providing the patients with detergents, alkaline water among others, also cleaned up the wards visited.
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