Nigeria: More adolescents than children increasingly dying from preventable causes in Nigeria — Prof. Fatusi

THE Vice Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences in Ondo, Professor Adesegun Fatusi, has said it is paradoxical that the preventable deaths in Nigeria increases from childhood to adolescence and keeps rising, even though adolescents are seemingly robust and healthy and can be prevented.

Speaking at a University of Ibadan Research Foundation stakeholder’s consultation on “Strengthening Adolescent Health Policies with Innovations from Research,” Fatusi stated that…