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No Blood Transfusion For 18 Years: My Incredible Encounter With Jobelyn (We Africans Don’t Value Anything African!)

Found with sickle cell anaemia at the age of two (Massey Street Children’s Hospital, Lagos Island) I remember having my first blood transfusion at the age of six. This was at the then Baptist Hospital Ogbomoso (now Bowen University Teaching Hospital). At that age and by the time I clocked 10, a gloomy interpretation of…