Matrimonous:

Anyway who cannot breath is as good as dead. Ventilators don't cure any diseases. That's not they were designed for. They only help to get oxygen into the lungs of those who otherwise should be in the morque.
Any system that could help restore life in 3% of those who are as good as lifeless has done a great job.

GamalNasser:


The truth is that intubation process is dangerously invasive , one wrong move to kill the patients and worsen stuff for the elderly ...the NCDC should not waste scarce resources on respirators because at the end of the day they don't even save the lives

godofuck231:
you all will remember goodluck Jonathan, it was a promise

RTSC:

One of the legends of nairaland along with Beaf, davidylan, sagamite and many others.

Emedu:

Ventilators are prescribed purposely to patients with difficult breathing. One of the last stage of the virus
Study showed that 9 in 10 of people placed on ventilator died. That means 90% percent. what is your measure of efficiency?
early test, early isolation and early treatment is still the best approach. They need more testing kit than they need more ventilators. That is my argument.

Matrimonous:

Without the ventilators it could have been 100%.

spiralwedge:

Of course, I remember him for not building ICUs, revamping hospitals for 8 years (6 as president, 2 as vice) at a time when oil prices were the highest and Nigeria was richest in its history.
I voted for him thinking he would change things only for him to turn out a distatseful weakling. Only ethnic bigots misses him. Never again
Buhari is not any better. Neither do I miss Jonathan.

dederocs:
only about 4% of those infected meet their demise, the NCDC should do its job by liasing with various arms of government, the public need to see results from the commission, not press releases.

Acidosis:


I think there's a lot of mis-education and poor enlightenment going on in this country.


The so called billions from the private sector were not donated to the government. Let's ensure we are well informed on this. Dangote, UBA, Sterling Bank, CBN, Globacom, Otedola, and other individuals and organizations that donated in billions and millions did not send the money to your government.

They all came together to form a coalition called CA-COVID. This is a joint coalition of private donors. They decide on what to do with their monies without your input or consultation with any government.

If you care to know what they've chosen to do with their money, then try to follow up on news on CA-COVID. You can also follow them on Instagram, Twitter, etc. The last I heard, they will be distributing food items to over 1.5 million households (with the aim of feeding 10% of Nigerians) next week. They've also ordered for around 500k test kits and some undisclosed number of other items.

This is how they choose to spend the billions you talked about.

Let's stop disturbing the government out of ignorance. There are no billions anywhere aside what the government has allocated and other few donations from churches and certain individuals (in the form of hospital equipment).

I will always say this, no government will shut down its own economy because of petty donations.

dederocs:

thank you for providing the right figure...yes i know, we all must continue to take precautions, face masks and sanitizers, when going out...we all are reasonable humans, NCDC should do its job, not spread bad news, it has a mandate to work, billions have been appropriated to it...closing down the economy for too long might bring out the animal in the citizenry, hunger breeds crime and restiveness, this too leads to people's demise.

jmaxjohn:
This is a very stupid thing to say. If your family member dies of this virus, you'd be speaking differently.

Lemme educate you.
1918, when the Spanish flu hit, there was an estimated world population of 1.8 billion people.
The number of deaths from the flu was at 50 million.
The number of infected was at 500 million.

Since you like percentages, let's do some.
The number of deaths in 1918 to the world's population was just 2.7%
2.7% is small until you remember that 2.7% is a whopping 50 million people.
The number of deaths from the confirmed cases of 500 million is small, just 10%, until you remember that just 10% is a whooping 50 million people.

Next time, think before you open your stupid mouth or type stupid things.

CeterisXVII:


You are saying the number of people that died was just 2.7% or 10%.

If any of your family or friends was among those 10% you mentioned, would you be so cavalier about the whole thing?