Dr Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), said on Saturday that the Federal Government was not importing Chinese medical experts to directly take charge of the fight against Covid-19 pandemic.

Abari stated this when he featured on a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) live programme in Abuja.

He explained that the 18-man Chinese medical team was only coming to share experience with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on how the pandemic was handled in China.

“Whatever information the Chinese medical team made available to NCDC will be filtered and applied to address the peculiar challenges of the country on handling Covid-19 scourge.

“This is a global pandemic and from wherever assistance comes, you cannot reject it.

“For instance, the United States is opening its doors to all volunteers that will come and assist them because they are also getting overwhelmed.

“Despite its fine medical facilities and expertise, US is now saying any form of assistance coming from anywhere that will add value to the fight against Covid-19 is welcome.

“It is not as if the government of Nigeria is not appreciating efforts of its own medical experts. This is the time when Nigeria is proud and appreciating its own medical experts and showcasing its best.

“This is the time that Nigeria is mopping all its competent hands, both active and inactive, and bringing them together with a view to ensure that we beef up competent human capacity required to address the issue at hand,” he said.

Abari, who said that humanity is being challenge by Covid-19, stressed the need for everybody to contribute meaningfully to the war against the virus.

He said that the Federal Government was responding favourably to the need to provide palliatives to the vulnerable groups, including persons living with disabilities, through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Investment.

Abari appealed to citizens, who had shown symptoms of the virus, to quickly present themselves to NCDC for testing and proper medical attention, to avoid endangering the lives of other people.

He also admonished citizens to maintain high standard of personal hygiene by washing their hands constantly or applying alcohol-based sanitiser.

The DG also enjoined citizens to be law abiding by obeying the stay-at-home directives of government, declaring “together we shall defeat Covid-19.”

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FG

Can't they offer online training ?

nice one, this is commendable even if they're coming for treatment what's big deal so far we don't have any cases again in Nigeria


a world class country like America dey beg for other country medical practitioners, Cuba medical practitioners volunteers went to Italy, so will a third world war country like Nigeria be wailing about that



anything that will eliminate this antisocial disease from Nigeria is welcome, seems some people like this sit at home


what naive Nigerians don't know is that, if the cases keep rising in numbers, the federal govt will impose another weeks join, it had been passed into law already. abeg make una no use wailing drive this medical practitioners away

Ogini? To increase cases and deaths, then sell ventilators, masks, and others to our slow leaders on credit at a very high-interest rate, so unborn generations can pay dearly for today's foolishness............no way!

Let NCDC use zoom, skype and other video conferencing platforms for their meeting(s). Rubbish!

And they cant do that through video conferencing?

U.S is opening its doors to volunteers but did they open its doors to China?

Why have countries that are worst hit by this plague not open their doors to China?

Mumu

Can't they share their experience over the phone??

Must they come here

Useless govt

We need every help we can get now. Even the US are shipping medical equipments from China.

No p

MrRichmond:
Mumu

Can't they share their experience over the phone??

Must they come here

Useless govt

I'm sure this is a joke

Must they come? Anyone involve in the conference or seminar should just go into isolation afterwards!

OK.... b careful oooo to me, we don't need them

Okay..

That's still better...


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They created this mess, least they could do, is help fix it.

Rubbish..

Make una use video call..

Yawn

I wonder why the world did not take precautions when this stuff was ravaging China in January and February?

Where we all thinking it will end in China or what?

I was listening to Bull Gate the other day, he was begging Trump to extend the lockdown for 10 more weeks. According to him, anything otherwise will be more deaths. He said that his Artificial intelligence algorithms predicted 40million deaths if stringent lockdown aren't in place.

American Twitter raged against him. Most called him the Antichrist or at least the Antichrist precursor.

I think Bill Gates is saying the truth.

Ok

They may launch letter "I" over here

Eyin wi

Hopefully they are not bringing a deadlier version of covid 19

Well, they should still be tested before allowing them into the country...if possible, give them a 14 days isolation period before letting them loose

The US is not opening its doors to anyone, that was fake news.
+ These Chinese medics don't need to be here just because we have 200 cases, or is there something no one is talking about?

Do they need to come? Federal government and their stupidity sha

And to share $ .

We are welcoming global saboteurs

That we should shoot on sight

You dt know anything.Here in Europe we are rejecting everything.

kponkedenge:
We need every help we can get now. Even the US are shipping medical equipments from China.