Nigeria grappling with 150,000 sickle cell cases annually, says Harvard’s Director, Achebe

By Joseph ErunkeABUJA — A Harvard Medical School Director, Dr. Maureen Achebe, has said the total cost of sickle cell disease across Sub-Saharan Africa might rise from $9.1billion per year to $10.2 billion by 2030.Achebe, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, lamented the sickle cell rate in Nigeria, regretting that the country was grappling with the highest number of newborns affected by sickle cell disease globally.She spoke yesterday, while delivering