People with COVID-19 symptoms not being tested – NMA president

The Nigerian Medical Association President, Dr Francis Faduyile, in an interview with one of our correspondents, said Nigerians was not testing enough number of people.

He said many people who required COVID-19 test had not been able to gain access to it because there was no synergy between the Federal Government and states.

Faduyile said some patients, who required the test because they had shown COVID-19 symptoms, had approached him to assist them to get a place where they could be tested.

He said, “We have not been able to have a harmonious working relationship between the Federal Government and states in our effort to fight COVID-19. This is very unfortunate.”

Delay testing portends danger, NMA warns

“The inability of our people to get tested at the right time portends danger for our society and efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus. Once we cannot test and ascertain those who have the virus, those who are not confirmed but who have the virus will cause rapid community transmission of the disease.”

“We are not privy to what the ministry has and we don’t know how the kits are distributed to test centres across the country. I don’t think it is good for the system.”

The NMA president said the configuration of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 was not in order because it was bereft of medical personnel capable of leading the fight against the virus.

He added, “It is important that stakeholders should form the core of the technical team working on COVID-19. This is a medical issue; it is an issue that requires medical personnel to be at the forefront of the fight so that they can galvanise ideas.

“It is unfortunate that the Ministry of Health and the Federal Government have not been able to get those people, rather, they put politicians in the Presidential Task Force.”

Man laments delay in wife’s treatment

Also, a middle-aged man, in a video that went viral on Tuesday, expressed frustration over the delay his wife experienced in getting treatment for COVID-19.

The man, whose wife was said to have been taken to an isolation centre in Lagos State, told an unidentified broadcast journalist nearby, “My name is Olamiju. What the hell are they doing here? She hasn’t seen a doctor since morning. She hasn’t seen a nurse. She hasn’t been fed. And you’re telling me that I should not take her out.

“Let her go and die in her house. Simple. I don’t care anymore. For the fact that Nigeria has coronavirus does not mean you should just be left around and then nobody treats you; nothing happens. I am going to call everybody I know in Nigeria now.”

Several Nigerians were outraged over the delay, even as a relative of the aggrieved man, @adukegold_, took to Twitter to seek intervention.

@adukegold_ said, “This is my uncle at the isolation centre @NCDCgov @segalink @jidesanwoolu please help us respond to his case.”

A popular social media activist, Segun Awosanya, otherwise known as Segalink, later responded, saying, “Hi Distinguished, do note that your uncle’s wife is being attended to. I just finished speaking with him to confirm this.

“He will also give feedback of his experience as things develop. This happened in Yaba for those saying it was in Benue. Let us always get our facts right.

“The @NCDCgov is doing its best to monitor the reports and it will lessen the burden if we allow objectivity to reign supreme. Things are no doubt imperfect but a lot is being learnt as we proceed.”

But the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, at a press conference on Tuesday, said the mode of operation at the isolation centre was different from that of a hospital ward.

He said it often took a few days for patients to adjust to life at the centre. The commissioner stated. He stated, “It takes a few days for the patients to get accustomed to isolation centres and that is why it is called isolation.

“For about one or two days, patients will always complain on social media that nobody is doing this, ‘I haven’t seen anybody.’ That is not correct. They are just not accustomed to seeing people for few minutes a few times a day. It is totally different from a normal ward.

“After about two days, the patients become accustomed to that and then they settle down. They start interacting with other patients in the ward, they make friends and if you have listened to the testimonies that have been released, they thank the government.

“They make a lot of good comments, they are happy that they are well and they have finally understood what isolation means.”

No enough testing kits in Edo, says health Commissioner

The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Mr. Patrick Okundia, lamented lack of sufficient testing kits for suspected coronavirus cases.

Okundia, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH, said the state had only one molecular machine in the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital which was inadequate for the state.

According to him, the state does not have the other rapid test kits

He said, “There are two types of testing facilities. The main testing machine is molecular PCR machine and we have only one in Edo State which is in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital.

“We don’t have the other Rapid Test Kit, but the information is that we can hardly use that to confirm any case of coronavirus, so we don’t recommend that at all. So far in Edo State, w have about 32 cases that have been tested and out of that we have two confirmed cases.”

He stated further that “the testing kits we have are at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, I cannot tell you the quantity now. Definitely they need more testing kits because they take more cases from outside the state.”


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3 testing centers in a country of 200 million people? Am very sure they are calculating how to embezzle all these donations.

Whoever knows NCDC should tell them to buckle up, every state needs at least 5 testing centers and like 15 centers for lagos and Abuja, after all, people have donated reasonably to enable that.

If medical association is complaining, what should we do? Blame game here and there. If they want to collect money to share among themselves, they know the right channel but now that there is complain, he doesn't know the right person to talk to again except the media.
What I expect to here is that we have recalled so so number of ex members or we need so so number of staffs to be employ immediately and we need presidential approval to go ahead and let see if Buhari will say there is no money to pay or so. Simple as that.

alizma:
If medical association is complaining, what should we do? Blame game here and there. What I expect to here is that we have recalled so so number of ex members or we need so so number of staffs to be employ immediately and we need presidential approval to go ahead and let see if Buhari will say there is no money to pay or so. Simple as that.

Naija I hail thee

Las las the 14 days stay at home will become useless.
Purpose will not be achieved

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Lord God! We are not perfect, but please protect us against this deadly sickness I pray thee. Amen.

10k cases loading.

If you don't like reading long epistles.

He simply said "Nigeria is not prepared in any way and we are finished"


If you need a a little juice

He said Presidential Task Force on Covid 19 sidelined medical practioners.

If you are not serious about this, know this

He is the the president of the Nigeria Medical Association.

sapientia:
If you don't like reading long epistles.

He simply said "Nigeria is not prepared in any way and we are finished"


If you need a a little juice

He said Presidential Task Force on Covid 19 sidelined medical practioners.

If you are not serious about this, know this

He is the the president of the Nigeria Medical Association.

My bro thanks, but as this isolation dey so I swear I have ample time to read anything no matter how long o

passing shot said buhari have tried even when the cow never leave his office. his clueless Minister of health is totally confused, even Lagos state commissioner for health is more efficient and proactive than that dunce we have as health minister



some sycophants need to be shot on their head for being stupid and foolish at a time

MYHUBBY:
passing shot said buhari have tried even when the cow never leave his office. his clueless Minister of health is totally confused, even Lagos state commissioner for health is more efficient and proactive than that dunce we have as health minister
some sycophants need to be shot on their head for being stupid and foolish at a time

PassingUrine abi PassingShit is a useless ZOMBIE. Ignore him.

Commonsense99:

3 testing centers in a country of 200 million people? Am very sure they are calculating how to embezzle all these donations.

Whoever knows NCDC should tell them to buckle up, every state needs at least 5 testing centers and like 15 centers for lagos and Abuja, after all, people have donated reasonably to enable that.

This country disgusts me