I have suggested to the health minister on why there should be testing and isolation centres in each states. As at today all testing centres are located majorly in South west and Abuja. What happens to South east and the Northern regions?


Off what benefit is it to saving lives when isolation centres have only beds with no ventilators. Average time frame for patients on ventilator to recovery is 9 days. What is the Federal Govt doing to acquire more ventilators?

Nigeria still has time to suppress the spread and prepare for cases but the time is being wasted.

okpalaAnambra:
Choi, wi

Hahahaha

Instead of you to come here and defend your Abia state, you are instead hiding in one thread mentioning me. Have you seen why Abia state is cursed?


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Education is good.

9jaRealist:
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This was delivered in 5 (five) days...
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I can't believe this,Government have been playing with pple's life. May God help us

TheGoodJoe:
We need a lab in Rivers State. The population of Port Harcourt is numerous and we were identified as one of the State with a high risk possibility by WHO.

I agree...
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sapientia:
6 all over Nigeria?

Can they please stop posting that figure they said they have confirmed.

Nigeria do not know the number of people positive since there are no test centres.

Please, all these kits of 10 mins and 5 mins being discovered, can't our FG be negotiating aggressively that test run of the kits be done in Nigeria.

[size=36pt]Since Buhari have absconded from duty, one of the 36 Presidents we have now can still do it.

God forbid the wave of death starts now, its over.

All those billions donated, what are they using it for?

Though Nigerians need food now, priority and undivided focus should be channelled massive testing of Nigerians.

My Guy You really killed it.

Mizwisdom:



Churches and mosques are refuge for those who need God. If you have no need for him that's your business but you shouldn't interfere with people's choices. Government doesn't build religious houses, individuals do. You're not even knowledgeable

Go to Hell with your lies,
If churches and mosques are the house of God, then why are they being closed because of COVID19 outbreak?
Did you go to church today?

You're an ignoramus


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You mean 3000？

osydennyz:
Just imagine.... With a population of over 200 million people.....it will not be well with those government officials (past & present) feeding on allocations meant for our health sector........

And also the future ones with intent to loot.

LabDNA:
Some Private medical laboratories should be called in and funded to increase the number of tests done per day. The percentage of positive tests per test pools scares me.
25% of all tests conducted in Nigeria are positive, while in UK it is below 15%.

This is really scary.

Capable private laboratory should be called in and funded to either become Covid testing centers or sample collection centers.

The Medical Laboratory Scientists should be life insured and paid handsomely. Private labs who decide to volunteer their facilities as collection centers should be paid a sensible grant/aid.

These are perilous times.

The biggest issue has not really been laboratories or test centers (you can be tested anywhere), nor even test kits, but rather reagents which are in short supply because virtually EVERY nation is going through the same thing (virtually unprecedented in public health) and need same.

The percentage of positive test results in Nigeria is almost certainly higher than it would be if Nigeria tested a broader spectrum of its population (as the UK, that you use as an example). However, given the relatively scarce testing resources in Nigeria (particularly the reagents), Nigeria prioritizes its testing regime towards persons who have recently returned from trips abroad AND/or are showing actual symptoms. In effect, it is akin to testing drug-users and gays for HIV. The testing pool thus far is NOT (necessarily) representative of the general population.
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Seven test lab for two hundred millions people?

That is very bad.

By now we should already be talking about testing centers at state level. We are way behind this scourge.

We need nothing less than 10 centers in FCT and about 30 in Lagos. Lagos and FCT are the epicenter of the virus in Nigeria. Maximum attention should be given to the two states.

We need at least one corona lab in each state.
Lagos need to have at least three labs.

All governors have to go for this.

WHY IS THE GUY WORKING IN THAT LAB SHOWN NO PUTTING ON FACE MASK

It's obvious we were NEVER ready

Why can't this test Centre be in every state capital at least? The Govt is too slow about this

MrDebonair:
I have suggested to the health minister on why there should be testing and isolation centres in each states. As at today all testing centres are located majorly in South west and Abuja. What happens to South east and the Northern regions?

Off what benefit is it to saving lives when isolation centres have only beds with no ventilators. Average time frame for patients on ventilator to recovery is 9 days. What is the Federal Govt doing to acquire more ventilators?

Nigeria still has time to suppress the spread and prepare for cases but the time is being wasted.

Companies like Innoson and others should be working with the government to build ventilators...
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9jaRealist:


[b]The biggest issue has not really been laboratories or test centers (you can be tested anywhere), [/b]nor even test kits, but rather reagents which are in short supply because virtually EVERY nation is going through the same thing (virtually unprecedented in public health) and need same.

The percentage of positive test results in Nigeria is almost certainly higher than it would be if Nigeria tested as broad a spectrum of its population as the UK (that you use as an example), because given the relatively scarce testing resources in Nigeria (particularly the reagents), Nigeria prioritizes its testing regime towards persons who have recently returned from the top 15 high-risk countries AND/or showing actual symptoms. In effect, it is akin to testing drug-users and gays for HIV. The testing pool thus far is NOT (necessarily) representative of the general population.
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Sorry, you cannot be tested anywhere. These are phases of chain of custody for the sample.
First you go to a collection center/ test center, the sample is collected, the test is then run.

All these phases require full biosafety control measures from pre-analytic to analytic to post-analystic phase.
There are some private labs that have attained 2,3, 4 star accreditation, like EL-LAB in Surulere. They can be called in by NCDC to help to collate samples. Those who can't run the tests can simply collect the labeled samples and send to labs with the reagents, equipment and capacity to test and transmit confirmed results to the NCDC.

My advocacy is for decentralizing the collection/testing centres, to encourage more people to go for compulsory testing. Having 10,000 people gather in a teaching hospital waiting to get tested is not feasible and safe now.

Decentralizing the testing structure will ultimately increase the testing pool and give us a proper representation on the actual number of cases.

sapientia:
Analyze the test for what?

A sample is taken from a suspected case (which can be done ANYWHERE, even in your home)...
The sample is taken to the closest of these 7 labs (each has the reagents required for COVID-19 tests), for analysis and confirmation (or not).
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Nonsense and it's ingredients, why can't they set up laboratories in all states.
Audio government

hmmm

By now each state would have gotten a well equipped testing & isolating centers throughout the federation. Our politicians have finished us.
The amount of funds carted away by single individual to foreign countries and cost of their choice properties in Dubai could have done this.

Oh My God!!! We are finished

LabDNA:
Sorry, you cannot be tested anywhere. These are phases of chain of custody for the sample.
First you go to a collection center/ test center, the sample is collected, the test is then run.

All these phases require full biosafety control measures from pre-analytic to analytic to post-analystic phase.
There are some private labs that have attained 2,3, 4 star accreditation, like EL-LAB in Surulere. They can be called in by NCDC to help to collate samples. Those who can't run the tests can simply collect the labeled samples and send to labs with the reagents, equipment and capacity to test and transmit confirmed results to the NCDC.

My advocacy is for decentralizing the collection/testing centres, to encourage more people to go for compulsory testing. Having 10,000 people gather in a teaching hospital waiting to get tested is not feasible and safe now.

Decentralizing the testing structure will ultimately increase the testing pool and give us a proper representation on the actual number of cases.

You can...

The protocol thus far is that when a suspected case is reported, the NCDC sends someone to the home to take a sample...
Presumably, the NCDC (or its agents) simply do not chock the samples into their bags or an envelope to be DHL-ed to the labs.

Of course, if the person is already symptomatic, he/she is taken to a biosecurity (or an isolation) facility and tested there...
If such a person is confirmed as positive, they remain at the isolation center. Otherwise, they are released (eg, the woman in Enugu State).
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Happyguy201:
so you mean a country with over 200 million people only have few testing kit? may God punish these leaders . make this coronavirus kill all of them . amen

Amen they didn't care for us at all

Meedon:
Two T-boys

Stop this trash , the whole is already in trouble. Don't add salt to the wound .

sapientia:


Analyze the test for what?

A test centre is where a sample is taken. It doesn't necessarily mean the sample is processed.

Isinweke:

Do you have sense? I seriously doubt.

favor2016:
This is not a testing centre but isolation centre

What clued you in, Einstein?
The LARGE sign that reads “Lagos State Isolation Center Onikan”?!
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