Nigeria. 7 million aged people beg FG to create Ageing and Elderly Commission
No fewer than seven million aged people in the country have appealed to the Federal Government to establish a commission for Ageing and Elderly Persons with a view to addressing their current plights and sufferings.
The ageing Nigerians said the creation of the Elderly couple in happy mood.
commission would provide an environment which will encourage and promote active living for all aged groups, thus fostering social capital and a sense of community living.
They also called on the federal and state governments to establish geriatric hospitals across the country to specifically address ageing medical challenges such as diabetics, hypertension, eye problems, arthritis and waste pains among others.
Operating under the aegis of Coalition of Societies for the Rights of Older Persons in Nigeria, COSROPIN, the elderly argued that they deserve cares because ageing is not an emergency situation or an accident, but a transitory period of maturation, a process that every human being prays to go through.
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