A team of Chinese doctors and experts arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday to assist the country in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Nigeria sends Chinese doctors into quarantine for 14 days. [NAN]
The team, which arrived in Nigeria through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was received by a Federal Government delegation led by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire.
The Chinese team of doctors and experts came along with a new consignment of kits and medical equipment.
Speaking to newsmen after their arrival, Ehanire thanked the Chinese government for sending experts and equipment to assist Nigeria in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
While congratulating China for being able to successfully manage the pandemic, the minister said that Nigeria had much to learn from the experiences of the Asian country.
Ehanire, however, said that the experts would be quarantined for 14 days before they begin working fully in Nigeria.
“They will be in quarantine for 14 days.
“They knew that before they came and they have undergone tests before they left their country.
“Nevertheless they would be in quarantine for 14 days.
“The NCDC has gone to see where they will be in quarantine and they will be paying visits there throughout the 14 days.
“We are very happy to see the equipment that have come today.
“This is the second consignment from China after the Jack Ma consignment.
“We believe it will help us a lot in addressing the gaps we would have had in commodities and also very important equipment.
“We have 50 ventilators more after this visit. Beyond the ventilators, we also have the oxygenator which is similar to a heart-lung machine, a very sophisticated machine to treat those cases where even a ventilator has failed.
“This is a very important addition to our regiment of treatment options,” he said.
The minister added that plans had already been made for the experts to begin to share experiences and answer questions even while in quarantine through teleconferencing.
“What they will be doing here is capacity building to add to the body of knowledge which our experts have.
“Even while they are on quarantine, I have requested that they connect with our doctors and experts via teleconferencing so that we can start early to ask questions and learn from their narratives,” he said.
The minister stressed that the experts were indeed needed as they had more experience in handling viral infections especially the new coronavirus.
He said that the Nigerian experts were also doing a good job but noted that every health or medical expert needed to learn from those with more experience.
“The medical team that came from Irrua are experts in managing viral diseases generally and this is a viral disease.
“But this coronavirus is a novel virus disease. So it has new dimensions which are new to us and even the experts among us would like to know more about it.
“So the visit of these experts from China will give us information not only on public health aspects but on case management and all the difficulties they had,” he added.
The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in over 80 countries across the globe. The World Health Organisation, WHO , has since declared it a public health emergency of international dimensions. WHO chief Tedros Ghebereyesus said whiles China had a robust health system to detect and control, his outfit remained concerned about the virus entering country’s with weak systems. Almost all African governments have publicly put in place strict screening at points of entry especially airports. Cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Nigeria. African airlines have cancelled scheduled flights to China except for Ethiopian Airlines. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that range from the common cold to MERS coronavirus, which is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus and SARS , Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavir...
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