 with an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 newborns living with sickle cell disease in Nigeria. The country accounts for 33% of the global burden of sickle cell disease. This star-green figure has ranked Nigeria as the country with the highest number of sickle cell patients in the world, according to medical doctors in Kano state. The less than the burden of sickle cell disease, Aminu Kano teaching Hospital AKTH has identified heightened sensitization to forestall the prevalence of the disease and active participation as a key driver towards intensifying blood donation. Ideally, blood should be transfusive, but unfortunately, that will not be so. Simply because we have to buy the back. The fact itself, you know, that you are going to put the blood in something very expensive. It's expensive because it's not produced in Nigeria. You have to import it from another country. This is very sad. At this age and time, we should be able to produce a back. We want to be able to put our own blood inside. Some few months ago, when I was in Nigeria, there were so scars. One wished to buy it at the rate of 200 nera. It escalated to 4,000 nera. 4,000 nera, but it's out of blood. So it's a very serious issue. In addition to that, we have to now screen the blood to make sure that the blood is laid and put into another person without any. And this also leads to your point. You need to get the agents that are needed so you can do this testing before transmitting the blood. If you don't have someone that will donate blood for you, so you have to buy that blood. And it's very difficult for us again. If you don't have that blood, you must find someone that will donate for you. Maybe if you are all positive or all negative, that blood is very hard to find. So if you don't have to do that person that will donate for you, you have to buy that blood. Well, I feel like I'm happy because though they donate it for us, we will be free for sometimes. We will use the blood if we are sick. And when the crisis arises, we have blood. We are not sorry about that.