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US, Project Pink Blue train 44 cancer doctors to save Nigerians from disease

By OakTV
15 August 2018   |   12:56 pm
US Mission in Nigeria, in collaboration with Project Pink Blue, kicked off a medical oncology training for 44 Nigerian clinical oncologists on Monday 13th August 2018.

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