Experts worry over growing incidence of sickle cell anaemia among new born babies
It was reported recently that about 4000 new babies are born with sickle cell disease in Anambra State annually and the situation has become more worrisome due to the fact that many would –be couples do not carry out tests before marriage to determine their blood groups so as to avoid bearing babies with the incurable disease. It was also reported that two percent of children born in West and Central Africa have the disease that has no cure.

