NAFDAC PARTNERS WITH ARISE MONALISA FOUNDATION'S UTERINE FIBROID PROJECT

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control [NAFDAC] has partnered with Arise Monalisa Foundation [AMF] to further safeguard the health of Nigerian women.After eight years of supporting major autism campaign causes, funding education for the less priviledged, charitable visits to orphanages and prisons amongst others, the Arise Monalisa Foundation has embarked on the Uterine Fibroid Project, this year, aimed at creating awareness, sensitizing the populace and sponsoring treatment of infected women across the country.

Speaking during the meeting which held on Wednesday 14th January 2015 at NAFDAC's headquarters in Abuja, Monalisa Chinda, multi-gifted actress and Founder of AMF said, "It is in giving our lives away that we find meaning... We appreciate NAFDAC for this strategic partnership as we look forward to propagating awareness of this fast spreading yet widely neglected uterine fibroid, which has become very common among women due to ignorance and stigmatization."According to Dr. Paul Orhii, Director General, NAFDAC, "We are proud to partner with the Arise Monalisa Foundation in mobilizing this timely project throughout the six geo-political zones in Nigeria, and this also marks the flag-off of our projects for this year."

About NAFDAC

Established in 1993, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is responsible for regulating and controlling the manufacture, importation, exportation, advertisement, distribution, sales and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical services, chemicals and packaged water. The current director-general of NAFDAC, Paul Orhii, holds a PhD in medicine.

 A couple went on an extended holiday abroad leaving their children behind with their grandparents.

After a whirlwind tour of the cities of Europe, they called home from Germany. When the father enquired how everything was at home, the son said, "The cat died."

The mother went into a state of shock. On finding out how the cat died, the father told the son, "Could you not have told us the news more discreetly?"

"How?" the son asked.

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Then the father added, "And by the way, how is grandma?"

" She went up the roof."