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Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire

No fewer than 120,000 children born with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in Nigeria die before their fifth birthday, minister of health, Osagie Ehanire has said. The minister explained that Nigeria has the highest burden of sickle cell in the whole world ahead of Democratic Republic of Congo and India,

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