By Dedeigbo Ayodeji
The 9 Brigade of Nigerian Army Cantonment, Ikeja, yesterday Celebrated the World Breast Cancer day.
In a speech delivered by the Commander 9 Brigade, Brigadier General Etsu Musa Awal Ndagi, said that his commitment will be without prejudice to the professional Lecturers delivered by Dr. Tutu of working together health foundations.
“I know that many of us here present particularly women ,are familiar with the phrase “Breast feeding” and I know that phrase because breast milk has health benefits over and above other processed baby foods like Cerelac ,SMA, and NAN.
“I think the health benefit of breast milk can not be the only reason why exclusive breastfeeding is the norm as planning as part of the world.
“A research was carried out ,which indicated that among bottle fare babies up to 1.6 million plastic are injected by the babies.
“In other part of the world this figure is higher because in all part of the world they do more of bottle feeding than breastfeeding .
“In North America for instance , that figure rises to 2.3million plastic injected annually .
“I know that one of the major diseases that inflicts our breast is Cancer .
“Cancer, we have learn from the opening remarks of Major Ani Commanding Officer of the Medical Center ,is up to 36.610 Annually among women particularly, the rate is between 36.3 – 22.2 cases among women.
“The high rate of cancer requires that we all take education on Cancer very seriously and that emphasis of this world breast Cancer day so I must appreciate the medical core for including in their training curricular .
“I also appreciate the Commanding Officer of the 9 Brigade Medical Center for the kind of things we organized in this beautiful program today .
“We appreciate the kind gesture of other sponsors that also assisted in making this event a success .
“I want to encourage women to take all they’ve learnt here very seriously because the earlier you detect breast Cancer is very expensive in Nigeria between 2.1 million to 29.2million depending on how early you detect it so the earlier the better Jacob Wexer’s research indicated that people generally both men and women now who engaged in exercises early in the morning have less risk of Cancer and particular breast Cancer is sampled 1,763 of breast Cancer ,and among those cases of Cancer ,he discovered that,about rural cases among women who engaged in household shores so my last word to women is that even if you can not wakeup to do exercise in the morning ,you can not go round the Barracks or a secured environment to do exercise you can at least wakeup very early to engage in household shores from time to time particularly this period of Covid19,equipped your bathe room with disinfectants like detol,hypo,hand wash material ,all these helped you to fight out Covid19 pandemic deseases.”
Major (Dr.)Nneka Ani , Consultant Radiologist, acting commander 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment ,said in his opening remarks,that “On behalf of the acting commanding officer, officers and men of the 9 brigade medical centre, I welcome you to this occasion of the kind of the world breast cancer awareness day 2020 workshop being a maiden occasion of its kind by the 9BMC.
“We are indeed delighted to be the host to this auspicious event in this immediate environment. May I use this opportunity to acquaint you with the theme of this year Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign which is ‘we fight, we win’.
“The need to carry out a workshop such as this, has become most expedient as breast cancer disease which affects both men and women is by far the most common cancer in women worldwide both in the developed and under-developed countries. In the low and middle income countries, inclusive of which is Nigeria, the incidence has been rising up steadily in the last years largely due to changes in lifestyle modifications amongst other facteast.
“There are about 1.3 million new cases and 458,000 deaths from breast cancer each year.
“In Nigeria, the incidence of Breast Cancer is about 36,310 cases per year.
“The Bread Cancer Awareness campaign is marked world over in the month of October hence this event of today as captured in the Nigerian Army Medical Corps Forecast of Events for the year 2020.
“This is aimed at enhancing increased attention and support for the awareness, detection and treatment of this disease.
“It is to this end that the 9 Brigade Medical Center under the leadership of the commander,9 Brigade Nigerian Army,Brig-Gen MA Etsu-Ndagi has come up with this rose-colored event for the benefit of the women(and men)in the barrack community as well as those in its immediate environment.
“May I use this opportunity to thank our invited guests and resources persons for sparing their precious time to come down here to share their thoughts and invaluable experiences with us on this subject matter. Let me also appreciate and thank most graciously, the Brigade commander, the Chief of Staff,Senior Officers,Officers and men of the 9 Brigade, Nigerian Army for their unwavering support. Permit me also to respectfully thank the commander, 81 DMSH for his support and guidance in making this event possible.
“My special thanks and gratitude goes to the Corps Commander Medical being an esteemed specialist in the field of discuss, for his professorial and fathomless inputs and support to this success of this exercise. My appreciation goes also to the officers and men of 9Brigade Medical Centre for their active role towards making this event successful.
“Finally, let me assure you all of the hospitality of the 9 Brigade Nigerian Army as well as the grand academic cum clinical prowess and experiences of our resource person for this event as you enjoy your brief stay here with us during this workshop. Once again I welcome you all and say “thank you for coming.
“I will like to use this medium to appreciate the core Commander Medical for the opportunity to bring to deck Cancer awareness program.”
