Come Thursday April 7, 2022, the world will celebrate the World Health Day (WHD), which is a day set aside annually to draw attention to health issues of concern to people all over the world. The day is observed in every nation of the world, under the auspices of several related organizations, led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
National Cancer Prevention Programme (NCPP), an initiative of mass medical mission (M3) will on the day, launch the ‘stable health initiative and free emergency (ambulance) & preventive health services for all’. Nigeria has the 7th lowest life expectancy in the world. Nigerians live about 10 years less than Ghanaians, 20 years less than Indians and 30 years less than Singaporeans. Lagos (Nigeria’s economic capital) is the least livable city in Africa and the second least livable city in the world for the year 2021. This is according to the most recent annual ranking put together by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The only featured city worse than Lagos is war-torn Damascus and health was a major criterion in the ranking. It is often assumed that health infrastructure can be funded in either of two ways (government budget or private investment). However, health can also be sustainably funded by the public through concerted philanthropy.
Giving Tide International exists to further the 80/20 principle of united philanthropy, a strategy that could enable any society in the world to establish world-standard institutions of care, without waiting on government.
The current focal cause of Giving Tide is the Big War against Cancer, aimed at establishing Nigeria’s first Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC). The CCC would be the first world class institution in Nigeria accessible to all social strata, since it would provide free service to those who need it most. The Big War is operated by the National Cancer Prevention Programme (NCPP), an initiative of mass medical mission (M3). NCPP has led community-based cancer prevention in Nigeria, since 2007. In 2017, a fleet of Mobile Cancer Centers (MCC) was deployed, to great effect. The project is now at the phase of establishing the first CCC.
Ambulance system will be launched on World Health Day 2022, thus ameliorating the burden of acute emergencies which has been compounded by COVID-19. Eventually, the free ambulances would be integrated into the Critical Care Centers, which would form part of the proposed CCC. These interventions are tools to bring greater stability to the health of Nigerians, while helping to raise the nation’s faltering life expectancy.
Registrants of the “Stable Health Initiative” would have access to the following:
Free Emergency Ambulance Service – One ambulance to serve 100,000 registrants (WHO recommendation). For example, Lagos State requires 200 ambulances for 20 million potential registrants.
Free Annual Cancer / General Health Screening – timed to coincide with the birthday of each registrant. One Mobile Cancer Centre (MCC) would serve one million registrants.
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