Every key health professional should be nominated, the NHS in the UK have classified a list key workers and are recalling Physicians, Nurses, midwives Biomedical Scientists/Medical Laboratory Scientists, medical social workers etc. who have either retired and or left the the health profession in the past 3 years to come back and help the fight against the CoVid-19 scourge. There about 20,000 of them.
Infact only the children of these key healthworkers are allowed to go to schools and cared for UK schools for free since their parents are battling on the frontline the pandemic.
The Nigerian FG should also toe the same path and incentivise health professionals in this war.
Ayoefa: We are proud sons of the soil. We are proud of who we are, we are proud of our history. We know who we are , where we are from and where we are going. We are not some lost sheeps looking for some relation that doesn't exist. Others come looking for us trying to establish relations with us not the other way around. We are not looking for some stupid, illogical and senseless Jewish relationship that doesn't exist. Don't get it twisted, we are intelligent and have self confidence of who we are. We don't need some racist Jews that basically consider all blacks as dogs including you fake jews according to their chief Rabbi (Josef) to feel self worth.
You know where you are from? You jumped from heaven and landed on earth according to your history. What can be more laughable?
iammo: A School in 1859 and a School in 2020 are two different things, in 1859 it showed superiority and class of Lagos ruling hierarchy like Oba kosoko, Oba Akintoye, Oba Dosunmu, it shows level of development and sophistication , while Aba in the 18 century women don't even wear cloths, they don't have schools
Morufu the ewedu muslim olodo, 1858 was in the 19th century. The first black man to ever record his autobiography was Olaudah Ikwuano and he lived around 1750s which was the 18th century and wrote about his people's culture, tradition, Igbo market days etc.
During that period, your yoruba forebears were still killing themselves in Kiriji wars and selling their human body parts to the highest bidder.
Ayoefa: Hey instead of wasting your time on NL, better run to MMA, the plane is still waiting for for retarded brainwashed ipob Biafuro jew wannabe fools. You already qualified for evacuation as a jew wannabe fool.
Invoke your ewedu gods to bring their spaceship to airlift you back to alienland where oduduwa dropped from.
Abagworo: Very funny indeed. When your tiny country is more ravaged with over 3000 confirmed cases
They know they stand a better chance of surviving the pandemic in their country than in yours. The only reason your case number is low is because you don't have testing kits. Even the incompetent NCDC and FMOH have told you that you are on your own.
The only thing that can help us is mass testing. Abott laboratories have developed a molecular-based 5 mins testing machine that are FDA approved. Beg them for the machines.
johnlegend01: Oga Professor, I disagree vehemently!!!
I am a Mining Engineer by study and by profession by God's Grace. I can categorically confirm that commercial explosives were being conveyed from an explosive company in the South west to a quarry in the South south. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) officers of the Nigeria Police were escorting the said explosives. The explosives detonated because the truck went in flames, according to report. Whether that cause is true or not is another case entirely. The one true fact is that "EXPLOSIVES IN A TRUCK DETONATED". The impact of the explosion is what you saw, while some witnessed ground vibration, air blast and noise.
For those that want to believe Mr Professor, try to check online videos of blasting done in quarries to know what explosives can do to rocks.
Check this video to understand the power of explosives.
In addition, some people said it was a bomb. Bomb explosives are different from commercial explosives. You would notice that there was no trace of fire or burn on and around the location.
So where are the pieces of the truck around the blast site?
An Igbo Man may perhaps, be the truest Nigerian if you want to honest. Forgetting the harsh realities of the civil war and the incessant marginalization of the region till date, they embrace the culture of nationalists, putting the country first above past deeds and wrongs.
The North never got over Ahmadu Bello and the West over Awolowo but the East rose above 3million dead to become the greatest economic force in the union.
Richdad
And how have you paid them back? Insults! Insults! and more Insults!
prettyaura: my dear, PLS move on with ur life, forget loving and caring becos he is just being humble becos he is broke...you can only know the true colour of a man when he has money
Why did you edit out 50% of your previous comment?
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). >
The NCDC hardly even answer calls to their phones, people have written so many bad reviews due to the distateful encounter they had trying to reach them. Yet you expect them to routinely send sample swabsticks to people's home?
Get real bro, they are overwhelmed already, they should decentralize and publish partner labs and hospitals in every state where people can go and get their samples collected, for onward transportation under controlled mileu.
Assymptomatic and symptomatic patients should all be tested.
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. >
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.
Ever wonder who conducts tests for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus? Who is working to find treatments and a vaccine?
Across Michigan, the United States and the globe, medical laboratory scientists – many trained by the Michigan State University Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program, or BLD – are working around the clock to test for and inform the public about the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
“Generally, we do our testing during the typical workday. But at this point, when there is something such as this, we are expected to work evenings and weekends,” said MSU alum Kristine Smith, MT (ASCP) ’00, the unit manager of bacterial and viral serology in the Infectious Disease Division at the Bureau of Laboratories for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, or MDHHS. “We're trying to get the specimens tested as soon as they come in – in 72 hours or less. The whole lab is coming together.”
The MDHHS Bureau of Laboratories was the first in Michigan to test for COVID-19, receiving emergency use authorization test kits from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to Smith, the laboratory tests about 200 samples a day.
Smith says that to start the testing process for COVID-19, nasopharyngeal specimens (swabs from the back of the nose and upper throat) are collected from hospitals, clinics and local health departments throughout the state using collection kits. These samples are then sent to MDHHS lab for testing.
Once samples arrive at the lab, scientists extract RNA and an enzyme is used to convert that RNA into complementary-DNA. That DNA is then amplified many times using a laboratory technique known as real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, or rRT-PCR, so that enough material is made to be able to detect the COVID-19 disease.
One COVID-19 run takes about four to six hours to complete, and medical laboratory scientists are working diligently to ensure accurate results.
“When you have something new like this, you have submitters that aren't used to sending specimens to the state lab for testing, so they really don't know the process,” Smith said. “It's a lot of education along with making sure that we have the correct patient, the correct submitter and that the results get reported to the appropriate submitter that ordered the testing. It is so important to have scientists with the needed skills and knowledge along with integrity to ensure accurate results are reported.”
In addition to the state laboratory, commercial laboratories and hospital labs are now up and running COVID-19 testing in Michigan. To help ensure test kits remain available, it is important to communicate with doctors and other providers in prioritizing urgency for testing.
“You hear that everybody who wants to be tested can be tested,” Smith said. “Well, that's pretty much impossible at this point. Maybe down the line. Getting swabs and viral transport media has been difficult for us and for health care providers. As more testing platforms are becoming available, procuring resources hopefully soon won’t be an issue. At DHHS, we are testing specimens as they come in, but we are also trying to prioritize those who are more severely ill.”
Medical laboratory scientists provide a pivotal piece to public and patient help, not just in pandemics.
“This profession is definitely needed,” Smith said. “And not just to perform testing such as COVID-19. I thought, what if we had all of our scientists busy doing COVID-19 testing? What about syphilis reporting and Lyme reporting and hepatitis and some of the other diseases that we test for? That's all very important, too. Those patients need to be diagnosed and treated as well. So, there's definitely a demand for people who are able to test and report.”
As a noteworthy mention, an MSU alumni, who chooses to remain anonymous out of respect to other laboratorians working hard on COVID-19, was the scientist to detect the first positive COVID-19 sample in Michigan.