The Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Hon. Samson Osagie, has called on the government, corporate bodies and well-meaning individuals to invest in the treatment of cancer patients to enable them to live a normal life.
Osagie, who donated N2.5 million for that purpose stated this at an event organized by BISAM Care Foundation Inc. to mark the third remembrance anniversary of his late wife, Olabisi Amenze Osagie JP, (nee Igbingie), in Benin City.
At a visit to the Oncology Department of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital to support cancer patients, Osagie said the foundation’s activities are borne out of the need to support cancer patients.
He said while his late wife was on her sick bed, she was also helping other cancer patients, noting that he decided to sustain the gesture to support humanity.
He said, “The BISAM Care Foundation was established two years ago in memory of my late wife, Olabisi Amenze JP, who passed on on the 10th of April 2022, on Easter Sunday.
My wife suffered triple-negative breast cancer for 11 years.
“She got treatment both home and abroad until God called her home. I think God knows the best. The inspiration for this foundation’s activities is born out of the fact that while she was in her sick bed she supported other cancer patients.
“So, we believe that this gesture must be sustained to support humanity. And it is a way of making her memory indelible in the minds of people, and in our minds as a family. We also believe that living a life without supporting your immediate environment and persons is not even worth it. No matter how much you enjoy on your own.
“I want to use this opportunity to call on governments, public-spirited individuals, organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and corporate bodies to invest more in the treatment of cancer because it doesn’t respect anybody.
Also speaking after the visit to Oncology wards to see the cancer patients, the Chief Medical Director of UBTH, Prof Darlington Obaseki thanked Osagie for doling out N2.5 million to support cancer patients.
Prof. Obaseki stressed that the burden of healthcare is huge for them and called on well-meaning Nigerians to join in the race that Hon. Samson Osagie had started.
