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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Wednesday, July 21 2004   news   editorial/opinion   policy & politics   focus/record   business   sports   capital market   metro   arts   money watch   energy   maritime   Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom Doctors want centre for liver disease By Ben Ukwuoma WORRIED by the high rate of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection among Nigerians, the Association for the Study of the Liver in Nigeria (ASLIN) has called on the Federal Government to establish a centre for the treatment of digestive and liver diseases in the country. In a statement during its 9th yearly Scientific Conference and National Viral Hepatitis B Workshop at the weekend in Abuja, the association recommended that the proposed centre be equipped with facilities for all sophisticated laboratory tests and liver transplantation as the modern mode of treatment of chronic hepatitis B infection is not yet available in the country. The statement by the association's president, Prof. Segun Ojo and secretary general, Dr. D.A. Ndububa, observed that Nigeria was among countries with very high prevalence of HBV, adding that the virus was responsible for at least 80 per cent of clinical liver diseases in the country. The statement also noted that the cost of treatment of an individual with chronic HBV infection is very high and unaffordable to the ordinary Nigerian. In view of the high cost of treatment and the non-availability of facilities for the treatment of the disease, the association urged the Federal Government to pursue preventive strategies such as the dissemination of information on the modes of transmission of the disease using the mass media and the other traditional means of information dissemination. It also called for the promotion of hepatitis B vaccination at the national and state levels through advocacy and faithful implementation of National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) programme for HBV. � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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