MASEBO ON SICKLE CELL

By Blessings Chibuye:

Health Minister SLYVIA MASEBO says Sickle cell anaemia is still one of the leading causes of mortality among children admitted to University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital.

Ms MASEBO says to address sickle cell disease, clinics have been set up at Levy Mwanawasa Hospital, Chipata General Hospital, Chinsali and Kasama hospitals in the last three years.

Ms MASEBO said this in a speech read on her behalf by Director Clinical and Diagnostic Services, ALEX MAKUPE at the commemoration of the World Sickle Cell Day in Lusaka today.

Meanwhile, CYNTHIA KALALUKA who has lived with sickle cell for 44 years is happy with government for having introduced diagnostic equipment that is able to detect sickle cell in a new born child.

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