Health & Fitness

The SCAP (Sickle Cell Awareness Project) by DISCON (Disability & Sickle Cell Organization of Nigeria) held as planned yesterday, 19th June, at it office in Festac Town, Lagos State, to commemorate World Sickle Cell Day. In attendance were some shortlisted Warriors to receive their handout packs consisting of Routine Drugs, …

In commemoration of World Sickle Cell Day, 2021, DISCON (Disability & Sickle Cell Organization of Nigeria) will be giving out Free Routine Drugs, Branded Awareness T-shirts and Books by Dr. David Owoeye (A Life with Sickle Cell Anaemia) in drawing the curtains on the maiden edition of our programme, SCAP …

This maiden edition of the SCAP (Sickle Cell Awareness Project) by DISCON (Disability & Sickle Cell Organization of Nigeria), an annual skills exposition event and awareness campaign, is a Short Story writing competition open to SCD warriors across the country, Nigeria. The Theme is Open. WHY PARTICIPATE? The SCAP is …

Kate James is a young hardworking single mother. She took ill sometimes in 2019 and was misdiagnosed for Ulcer, which she had been treating till February, 2020. Upon further examination by a doctor and lab tests, it came to fore she had LIVER Problem. Due to the Covid19 lockdown, accessibility …

GRANDSCOPE HAVENS (Properties) in its bid to add humanitarian values to society will commit 10% of every property sale/revenue to the Sickle Cell Cause in Nigeria. This will be done in partnership with the Disability & Sickle Cell Organization of Nigeria (DISCON) to achieve this CSR initiative through its projects. …

This customer on his way out of the office beckoned that he wanted to see me in camera. There were two other persons with me, so I had to excuse myself to give him an audience. “Sir, I would like to know you better. You sound like my countryman. Aren’t …

I was born with Sickle Cell Anemia In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My doctors knew right away because the white part of my eyes (sclera) were yellow with bilirubin. The disease affected me gravely. I was constantly in and out of the ER due to excruciating pain crises. It got me admitted …

Not long after I was interviewed and published by a publication, the Sickle Cell News Journal (sicklecellnews.com), the publisher of the magazine got in touch again to inform me somebody else would also love to have a word with me and if he was free to share my contact info. …

– by Tayo Faloye. He had just concluded his mandatory one year NYSC programme and returned home to Lagos from Benue State. He had plans to return back there someday. He had fallen in love with their ways of life. Before his final discharge from service, he would regale us …

By: Tayo Faloye The Red Umbrella Walk 2019, tagged: #ShoutItOut4SCD, to commemorate the World Sickle Day, took place today at the Unilag Sports Centre where the walk kicked off and rounded off. The massive turnout for the events by SCD Warriors, Sponsors, Caregivers, Healthcare Service Providers, Volunteers, Collaborators, Paramedics and …