COVID-19: FG gives reasons for inviting Chinese doctors -

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April 11, 2020
The Federal Government has said that it wanted to learn from the Chinese experts on how they solved the novel Coronavirus pandemic in their country.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made this known on Friday in Abuja, at the Presidential Taskforce (PTF), briefing on COVID-19 in the country.

Ehanire was reacting to the ongoing controversy trailing the arrival of Chinese doctors in Nigeria.

Ehanire revealed that the Nigerian medical team would begin scientific engagement with the experts in a few days via video conferencing, while they were quarantined.

The minister said that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),6 had earlier inspected the quarters where the experts were being quarantined and the NCDC also had access to inspect whenever they wanted to do so.

He said “As earlier mentioned, a 16-ton consignment of medical commodities and equipment worth USD 1.5 million arrived Abuja on Wednesday from Beijing, China, in a Nigeria registered charter flight.

“It was courtesy of Chinese companies working in Nigeria, along with a 15-member team of medical and technical advisers.

“The equipment includes 50 ventilators and an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, which can be used in worst case scenarios of COVID-19 treatment, when a ventilator is no longer effective.

“This ECMO machine, the export of which is restricted by many
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