Clement Adebamowo

Clement Adebamowo is a Nigerian academic, epidemologist, medical and public health researcher. He is a professor of Epidemiology and Public Health who currently serves as Director of Global Health Cancer Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Quotes “We need to let our people know that cancer occurs in Nigeria just like other parts of the world and it does not mean the end of life. “With appropriate care, someone can live a better life. Early presentation is important, many of these cancers don’t make you have a fever, vomit or experience body pain but they are deadly.” “Some of the factors are from the patients themselves. You know, local views about the disease, spiritual bearing, the fact that we need to pray for everything, our beliefs that everything has a cause and that the cause may be nothing to do with medicine but some individuals. Of course, there are potent issues of money; you don’t go to the hospital without money. It is almost like a cash and carry system now. So if you don’t have the money you don’t go to the hospital. “Where patients are staying is another factor; those in the rural areas don’t get enough experts to attend to them, and those in the city have problems accessing care because experts are concentrated in few hospitals,” External Links