“The impact will be very serious for Africa, because most of our programmes are supported by the WHO, including our vaccination programme that is already complicated by COVID-19 and disease surveillance systems.” Trump WHO Covid19
This is just as medical doctors and other health workers in Nigeria are worried that over four weeks after, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was yet to keep its promise to review upwards their paltry N500 hazard allowance and establish comprehensive life insurance for at least 5,000 health workers.
To a virologist/vaccinologist and Chief Executive Officer of Innovative Biotech in Keffi, Nasarawa State and the US, Dr. Simon Agwale: “The impact will be very serious for Africa, because most of our programmes are supported by the WHO, including our vaccination programme that is already complicated by COVID-19 and disease surveillance systems.”
Amibor said the WHO, on its part, has been able to justify the funds received from the US, with interventionist health programmes that have “In the opinion of the administration, all these suffering and deaths could have been averted if China had been transparent in her handling of information on COVID-19, especially at the initial phase of the pandemic. US feels the WHO did not do enough to warn the rest of the world early enough about the vicious and highly contagious epidemic playing out in China between late last year and early this year.
“The WHO announced that they are going to do internal audit. I believe no human being is perfect. Should we sack Trump for all his errors? You cannot be bullying an institution when you have also made a lot of mistakes. It will be premature to judge the WHO. The right thing to say is, let us investigate this, especially the WHO and nations. But to bully and threaten is not expected of statesmen, and I think Trump is embarrassing his office.
“…It will be unwise for any country in the world to withdraw its funding support for the WHO, especially at this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will amount to cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face. It will surely not do the cause of global health any good. “Yes, there are consolations here and there, like the news that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has promised to increase funding to
The virologist said Nigeria needs to build up a resilient health system by leveraging the local pharmaceutical and public health strength and showcase that building and sustaining a strong health system is not beyond reach.
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