The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable diseases, Utazi Chukwuka, on Wednesday decried the failure of Nigeria to prepare for the outbreak of epidemics like coronavi
rus despite the Ebola experience of 2014, which claimed the life of Nigerian physician, Stella Adadevoh.
He said, “The position we have taken for the prevention of coronavirus in Nigeria is to ensure that the Ministry of Health works assiduously with the National Centre for Disease Control to ensure that we profile everyone coming through all entry points in the country.“Those who have high suspicion rate should be isolated so that they do not infect others, especially people from China. The Minister of Health, Osagie Enahire, is getting the needed support from the government to do the work.
“The DG of NCDC stated the fact not to please anybody but to let them know the challenge of the centre.
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