COVID-19: Nigeria Hasn’t Paid Sufficient Attention To Building Diagnostic Infrastructure Since Independence, Says NCDC DG
One of the biggest challenges confronting Nigeria’s war against the COVID-19 pandemic is the limited diagnostic infrastructure in the country, according to the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu.Dr. Ihekweazu stated this during his appearance on The Platform on Saturday.
For the NCDC boss, the failure in providing diagnostic infrastructure is not down to one sector or the government, it is a collective failure. He said, “I think there is a lot of lessons to be learned after this around the fragmentation of our health system and how that provides a challenge when you come to an outbreak and you really need a commander in a controlled environment with clear leadership across governments to drive the response.
“I have seen leadership at the Federal Government side, at the PTF, among the governors. I have attended meetings of the NGF, spoken to many of our governors – the Governor of Lagos State, the Governor of Kano State; it is incredible, the amount of leadership that comes out in a crisis.”
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