Trinity Foundation Creates Awareness on Viral Hepatitis

As part of activities to commemorate World Hepatitis Day 2017, Trinity Healthcare Foundation, Nigeria in collaboration with the World Hepatitis Alliance organised a two-day community awareness programme on viral hepatitis, an acute or chronic inflammation or injury which can result to partial or complete damage to the liver.

The hepatitis awareness programme which was held at the Lawanson Ultramodern Shopping Complex, attracted a large number of people, following a sensitisation rally a day before the event around Lawanson, Obele Itire and Ijesha axis within Surulere Local Government Area.

During the symposium, participants and people across all levels of the society, were offered free hepatitis screening, free hepatitis B vaccination, and health talk on symptoms of hepatitis vaccination, transmission modes and ways of preventing the hepatitis virus.

World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis – a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E – and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

According to the Founder/ CEO, Trinity Healthcare Foundation, Dr. Nseabasi Ekanem, hepatitis B, which unarguably is the most common type of viral hepatitis in Nigeria, is the most deadly type of hepatitis virus responsible for majority of liver cancer reported worldwide.