Challenges in Nigeria’s management of sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder inherited from one’s parents and characterised by inheritance of two abnormal genes with one of the abnormal genes being haemoglobin “S.” It’s commoner in blacks although it is a global disease. It is said to have originated from Sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria still has the highest burden…

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