United Nigeria Airlines, NCS Kick-off Initiative to Fight Cancer.
Speaking at the press briefing in the airline’s Lagos office yesterday, United Nigeria Airlines’ Managing Director, Mazi Osita Okonkwo, said the airline’s position is that the fight against cancer must begin with early detection.
Sharing his own experience, he said he is a cancer survivor and also lost two sisters to the disease and does not shy away from talking about it because telling the story gives hope to people who may be facing the disease or who may think a diagnosis is a death sentence.
For the initiative, he said the first level of the campaign will focus on early-stage prevention, a large-scale awareness drive and the sharing of information.
The second level addresses cancers that are not caught early and need treatment. “We have heard the news, and we have seen people who have been affected by this deadly disease. It is on that basis that United Nigeria has decided to work with the Nigerian Cancer Society in a special way to mount a campaign against cancer in Nigeria. We have looked at the programmes and activities of the Society, and we are very happy with them.
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