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  • Digital technology for COVID-19 response

    WHO has acquired overwhelming pro-bono help from technology firms to struggle the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 April, 30 of the world’s main digital technology specialists gathered in a digital roundtable to assist advance WHO’s collaborative response to COVID-19. 

    This pandemic has triggered an unprecedented demand for digital well being technology options and has revealed profitable options corresponding to for inhabitants screening, monitoring the an infection, prioritizing the use and allocation of sources, and designing focused responses.

    “We want your dedication, so we will flip these concepts into actuality and work with public well being companies and frontline well being employees to place this pandemic to relaxation,” stated WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his welcoming comment. “We can solely sort out this world menace – and get our financial system again on observe – by working collectively.”

    The assembly was co-facilitated by Steve Davis and Precious Malebona Matsoso, co-chairs of  WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.

     The targets of the assembly have been as follows:

    1. Introduce WHO’s Digital Health & Innovation efforts for COVID-19 and search help from technology firms within the design and execution of these initiatives.
    2. Build on WHO’s COVID-19 efforts by way of new collaboration and data sharing, to ship focused options by way of a coordinated effort to help international locations dealing with phases of this epidemic in numerous methods and totally different instances.
    3. Share and discover identified gaps and areas that lack focus. Topics embody user-focused options, combating misinformation, provide chain administration, functions supporting well being employees, neighborhood engagement platforms, help data administration capacities, analysis and improvement help, restoration planning work.
    4. Secure volunteer and pro-bono sources from world tech firms to design and execute response initiatives with WHO. 

    Bernardo Mariano Junior, director of WHO’s Department of Digital Health and Innovation, known as for unity in response efforts, “The world must be properly ready and united within the spirit of shared accountability, to digitally detect, shield, reply, and put together the restoration for COVID 19. No single entity or single nation initiative will likely be enough. We want everybody.”

     

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  • Nigeria’s Unhealthy Healthcare In Eye Of Coronavirus By Runcie C.W. Chidebe

    Nigeria’s Unhealthy Healthcare In Eye Of Coronavirus By Runcie C.W. Chidebe

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19) is right here to show us a lesson; I hope we be taught. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy. But as an alternative of fixing it our rulers have been busy flying up and down to profit from different nation’s productive well being system. With Coronavirus, actuality is upon us. No extra operating abroad for medical trip. Our rulers can’t journey to the United Kingdom, United States of America or India anymore for medical care. These nations are additionally hanging on their final breath, battling to outlive the COVID-19 pandemic. 

    In 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari spent 103 days in London receiving medical therapy for an undisclosed sickness, spending taxpayers’ cash as an alternative of investing within the nation’s healthcare. Thousands of Nigerians died in the identical interval from totally different sicknesses. More than 3,000 girls died of breast most cancers, greater than 2,000 girls died of cervical most cancers and greater than 1,500 males died of prostate most cancers, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) figures on annual most cancers mortality.  

    I had hoped that on his return to Nigeria, President Buhari would declare a state of emergency within the nation’s well being sector. Painfully, nothing of such occurred. Nigeria’s funds allocation to healthcare has remained lower than 5% of the whole funds for the previous 5 years. Simply put, in 2020 the federal authorities budgeted N2,000 (£4.2) for every Nigerian with a complete of N427.Three billion as funds allocation to the well being sector whereas the United Kingdom budgeted £2,159.6 for every citizen with a complete well being funds of £143.4billion. It is similar dismal story within the states throughout Nigeria. Healthcare isn’t a precedence. In some states in Nigeria, a hospital is a 20-minute boat journey and an hour-long automobile journey. Because many poor Nigerians don’t personal boats, a girl in labour may bleed to loss of life earlier than she reaches the hospital.

    On March 22, 2018, Bill Gates, founding father of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, criticized Nigerian authorities’s poor funding of healthcare within the nation. In his phrases, “One in three children is chronically malnourished.” This tragedy has large implications for the economic system. According to the World Bank, addressing the stunting disaster in Nigeria would add virtually $30 billion to Nigeria’s GDP. It is painful that regardless of Mr. Gates assertion, nothing has modified. Nigeria has remained one of many nations on this planet with the worst healthcare system with over 60 deaths per 1000 stay births. Nigeria has one of many worst most cancers survival charges on this planet, with solely 2 to three most cancers radiotherapy machines working at any time and fewer than 70 oncologists for a inhabitants of over 200 million. 

    COVID-19 is exposing the insensitivity of our leaders to issues that matter most to us. That Nigerians are disobeying the federal government’s security recommendation on COVID-19 is a transparent reflection of residents’ distrust for his or her leaders. Many Nigerians belief their non secular leaders greater than they belief our political leaders. Successive governments have failed the nation, and it doesn’t appear like factor will change anytime quickly. 

    Nigeria is a rustic the place our rulers make legal guidelines as we speak and break the identical legal guidelines tomorrow. The Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control (NCDC) adopted the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline and strongly inspired all Nigerians coming from sure nations to self-isolate and monitor themselves, as a method to comprise or to delay the unfold of COVID-19. The president’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, returned from Germany and as an alternative of isolating himself he was leaping from one state to a different, attending occasions and conferences with totally different folks, breaching the federal government’s personal advice and inserting the lives of different Nigerians in danger! 

    Now that COVID-19 is in Nigeria we have to face it with all that we’ve. But can we? The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is now the nation’s solely perceived hope. Many Nigerians have been calling NCDC scorching traces, criticizing NCDC for not testing sufficient folks. But we must always face the music and never the dancer. NCDC is crippled and never effectively outfitted to guard Nigerians from the illness. 

    In 2016, NCDC budgeted N3.7m for its recurrent and N248m for capital allocations. That is a complete of N251.7m. Out of this, solely N155m was launched to the centre. In the identical 12 months, 1,166 Nigerians died of Cerebrospinal Meningitis. In 2017, the NCDC had a funds of N1.5b. Only N782m was launched. In the identical 12 months, greater than 120 Nigerians contracted Monkeypox and 7 folks died from the illness. That identical 12 months, the Presidency budgeted N77m for Aso Rock lease, N1b for journeys and sitting allowances, and N94m for meals. In 2018, the NCDC had a funds of N1.9b. Only N654m was launched. In the identical 12 months, N7.2b was proposed for Presidential Air Fleet. N440m was proposed for necessary improve and set up of stay TV and web service within the presidential aircrafts, N375m for brand spanking new cabin administration, N418m for the touchdown gears. In whole, over N1b was budgeted for the presidential aircrafts which is used for medical tourism and frequent journeys overseas. 

    On November 12, 2018, the NCDC institution invoice was signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, because of the efforts of Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, the then Chair, Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases. On this premise, the NCDC was empowered with a laws for its work in stopping and making ready for outbreaks of infectious illnesses. Interestingly, the NCDC acquired the worst funds in 2019, the 12 months following the passage of the NCDC Act. The Centre had a funds of N1.4b, however solely N224m was launched. In the identical 12 months, over 472 Nigerians have been identified with Lassa fever and over 110 folks died from this viral hemorrhagic fever. Clearly, NCDC can’t carry out magic. They need assistance. Nigeria is grossly under-testing for COVID-19, the laboratories usually are not sufficient, and NCDC and its affiliate businesses wouldn’t have sufficient manpower and sources. 

    Months in the past, being unwell evoked empathy; as we speak being unwell evokes concern. The concern of COVID-19? No! It is the concern of not gaining access to the care that you just want, the concern of absence of ventilators, the concern of a damaged well being system. It is the concern of loss of life. Our political leaders have stolen from the sick by corruption. Many Nigerian governors construct non-functional hospitals of their states. Usually, after the commissioning of those hospitals, all of the CT Scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and different medical machines—a few of them faux—are returned to the place they have been bought or left to rot. 

    Hospitals in Nigeria are among the worst on this planet. Our educating hospitals at the moment are museums the place lower than 5% of medical trial and analysis is occurring due to poor laboratory. Medical tourism has due to this fact grow to be the norm. Dubai hospitals, Saudi Arabian hospitals, and so on., are promoting in Abuja and Lagos for Nigerian sufferers. They are recruiting Nigerian docs, together with consultants. Nigeria isn’t solely going through “brain drain,” we’re additionally going through “patient drain.” Our docs and nurses work within the worst situations. Hazard allowance for well being staff is about N5,000 whereas wardrobe allowance for members of the National Assembly runs into hundreds of thousands. 

    Now is the time for Nigeria to confront its healthcare disaster. The Nigerian authorities should settle for its failure. Our political leaders should brace as much as their duty and critically replicate on the issue their greed has delivered to Nigeria. This is the time to put money into a result-oriented healthcare system. Health is wealth because the saying goes. healthcare system is the muse of any nation. 

    If we survive COVID-19, we have to contemplate a legislation to limit all public officers from searching for medical care overseas. It could also be perceived as strict, however it can save future generations since we don’t know which pandemic would come subsequent and when. 

    Let’s give each Nigerian an area to stay and a not probability to die. 

    Runcie C.W. Chidebe is Executive Director, Project PINK BLUE. He is at the moment a Commonwealth Scholar on Transforming and Leading in Health Care at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. He tweets @runciecwc

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  • Coronavirus will play out very differently in world’s poorest nations

    Coronavirus will play out very differently in world’s poorest nations

    Cases of covid-19 have been sluggish to seem in growing economies, however now they’re ramping up. Slums and refugee camps may very well be notably weak
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  • Chagas disease: providing free paediatric medicine can enhance diagnosis and treatment

    Documentation resulting in the donation of an important antiparasitic medicine for the treatment of Chagas illness to the World Health Organization (WHO) is within the ultimate stage of preparation.

    A 3-year settlement, between the Mundo Sano Foundation1 (Brazil) and WHO, is anticipated to make obtainable 108 000 tablets of the paediatric formulation of benznidazole2 – a first-line medicine towards Chagas illness. Treatment3 with benznidazole within the early levels of an infection can treatment Chagas illness.

    “Making benznidazole freely obtainable for the treatment of newborns till the age of 18 might be a game-changer within the battle towards Chagas illness” mentioned Dr Mwelece Ntuli Malecela, Director, WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical
    Diseases. “This is not going to solely save future generations from growing life-threatening and deadly issues however can even increase up diagnosis and treatment.”

    Each yr, an estimated 15 000 youngsters are born from contaminated moms. A freely obtainable paediatric presentation of benznidazole with correct dosage is essentially anticipated to contribute to deal with congenital infections.

    “Treating newborns and youngsters was the lacking hyperlink, as we transfer decisively to advocate for the mixing of diagnosis of an infection amongst pregnant ladies and women of child-bearing age into different surveillance programmes, together with HIV and syphilis” mentioned Dr Pedro Albajar Vinas, Medical Officer with WHO’s Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases.  “Diagnosing and treating ladies of this age group earlier than being pregnant can increase successfully stop congenital transmission.” 

    The settlement

    The donation by Mundo Sano Foundation at some point of the settlement includes benznidazole:

    • 105,000 tablets of 100mg
    • 3,000 tablets of 12.5mg

    Furthermore, the Foundation might donate funds of as much as US$100 000 at some point of the settlement to help actions related to distribution of medicines and conferences. The Foundation additionally makes provision for an extension of this settlement past
    the required length of three years.

    The illness

    Chagas illness, often known as American trypanosomiasis, is a doubtlessly life-threatening sickness brought on by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi).

    Although appreciable progress has been achieved, significantly in decreasing vector transmission and screening of blood and organ provide, reaching and diagnosing individuals most affected has been a problem.

    Currently, under-diagnosis of Chagas illness instances is as excessive as 90% and under-diagnosis of congenital transmission is believed to be even greater.

    Globally, an estimated 6-7 million individuals are contaminated with T. cruzi.

    The illness is discovered primarily in endemic areas of 21 continental Latin American international locations4. But motion of individuals to city areas and to different continents has expanded its transmission by means of non vectorial routes, akin to blood transfusion, congenital
    transmission, organ transplants and oral meals contamination.

    Considering the illness as a rising public well being drawback in lots of international locations, the World Health Assembly – WHO’s decision-making physique – determined in May 2019 to commemorate World Chagas Disease Day on 14 April.

    The inaugural celebration occurs this yr.

    1 Mundo Sano is a nonprofit worldwide basis working with the general public and personal sectors, academia, and different worldwide organizations to supply options to the affected communities and generate scientific information. In 2012, it led a public-private consortium in 2012 to provide benznidazole in Argentina.

    2 In 2017, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted benznidazole for the treatment of kids aged 2–12, making it the primary treatment accepted within the United States for Chagas illness.

    3 Nifurtimox can be 100% efficient in curing Chagas illness if given quickly after onset of an infection, together with instances of congenital an infection. It is donated by Bayer who pledged greater than 7.5 million tablets for the interval 2012-2021.

    4 Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela
    (Bolivarian Republic of).

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  • WHO to continue support for Chagas disease programme that promotes patient self-care

    The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Catalan Ministry of Health say they’ll collectively support the dissemination of a programme that gives support to sufferers affected by Chagas disease to handle their very own well being and promote self-care.

    The Catalonian ‘Expert Patient Programme on Chagas disease’ includes interplay and sharing of knowledge amongst individuals affected by the disease and is performed by an knowledgeable patient. The programme is taken into account to have completed very properly because it was first initiated in 2017.

    “Over the previous few years we now have seen exceptional improve in consciousness and confidence amongst sufferers to pursue medical care and follow-up with physicians” stated Dr Pedro Albajar Vinas, who’s accountable for WHO’s Chagas disease programme. “When sufferers discuss to each other there may be higher deal with general perceptions of well being, life-style, bettering shallowness, self-care and particular person satisfaction.”

    The programme additionally encourages self-responsibility and features as a part of the Chronic Disease Prevention and Care Programme of the Government of Catalonia. It is predicated on three key approaches:

    • support supplied by sufferers and observing professionals to these in power part of the disease;
    • promote interplay in teams by 9 fastidiously deliberate periods;
    • consider efficiency of previous periods by questionnaires earlier than a brand new session begins.

    Many individuals who attended the programme over time say they might suggest it to household and associates because it vastly helps to enhance information about disease.

    Initiators of the programme are assured that the methodology used, and classes discovered can type a part of a broader technique to push for complete care for a disease that continues to be largely uncared for. For instance, regardless of the efforts of the previous decade, the worldwide detection fee for Chagas disease is lower than 10%.

    Through this settlement, WHO will present support in facilitating the interpretation of supplies and paperwork in languages utilized in its Member States in addition to help within the improvement of any mobile-based software if the necessity arises. The Government of Catalonia will print and distribute for advocacy functions.

    To promote international advocacy for the disease, the World Health Assembly – WHO’s decision-making physique – in 2019 adopted a call to have a good time World Chagas Disease Day on 14 April.

    The disease

    Chagas disease was as soon as confined to rural areas of Latin American international locations the place the primary route of transmission is vectorial transmission.

    But over the previous many years, the disease has been more and more reported in lots of international locations exterior Latin America primarily due to motion of populations and migration.

    According to WHO estimates, round 6-7 million individuals are contaminated with Trypanosoma cruzi – the protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease.

    Vectorial transmission happens when people are available in contact with the faeces or urine of triatomine bugs (referred to as ‘kissing bugs’, amongst many different native names).

    These bugs – the vectors that carry the parasites – reside within the wall or roof cracks of properties – the place they disguise in the course of the day and lively at evening after they feed on human blood. They often chew an uncovered space of pores and skin such because the face (therefore its widespread identify ‘kissing bug’).

    Right after a chew, the bug defecates/urinates shut to the chew space. The parasites enter the physique when the particular person instinctively reacts to the chew and smears the bug faeces or urine into the chew, the eyes, the mouth, or into any pores and skin break.

    The parasite may also be transmitted by:

    • consumption of meals contaminated with T. cruzi by, for instance, contact with faeces or urine of contaminated triatomine bugs or marsupials (this type of transmission sometimes causes outbreaks with extra extreme morbidity and better mortality – infecting teams of individuals concurrently with extra frequent instances of extreme disease and better variety of deaths);
    • blood or blood product transfusion from contaminated donors;
    • passage from an contaminated mom to her new child throughout being pregnant or childbirth;
    • some organ transplants utilizing organs from contaminated donors; and
    • laboratory accidents.

    There is not any vaccine in opposition to Chagas disease. Domiciliary vectorial management and transfusional management, along with congenital transmission, stay the simplest strategies of stopping transmission in Latin America.

    Chagas disease was named after Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, a Brazilian doctor and researcher who found the disease in 1909.

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  • World Health Worker Week – April  5 – 11, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic and different international emergencies present us as soon as once more the heroic efforts well being staff on the entrance traces make day-after-day to maintain their communities—and the world—protected and wholesome.  The WHO and the Global Health Workforce Network is happy to associate with civil society companions—the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and its members—to honor well being staff throughout World Health Worker Week: April 5-11, 2020. The Eighth Annual World Health Worker Week is yet one more alternative to mobilize communities, companions, and policymakers to extend assist of well being staff worldwide.

    The 2020 theme is Leaders on the Front Line. This theme highlights the want to offer higher management alternatives for frontline well being staff—significantly ladies well being staff, who make up greater than 70% of the worldwide well being workforce. At the identical time, this theme emphasizes how well being staff usually put themselves on the road, usually at nice private danger to themselves and their households, to avoid wasting and enhance lives.

    We invite all well being workforce stakeholders to affix us by elevating public consciousness and fascinating on well being workforce points, and acknowledge the lifesaving contribution of the well being workforce. All actions can be filtered by a World Health Worker Week portal, hosted by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition secretariat at IntraHealth International.

     Some key methods to get entangled:

    • Add your voice to the #WHWWeek dialog on social media! Use the WHWW Social Media Guide with key messages, graphics, and steered tweets.
    • Participate within the WHWW Video Testimonial Series and inform well being policymakers why frontline well being staff are Leaders on the Line and the way we will higher assist them. It’s straightforward to participate—see the guidance and add your video.
    • Celebrate World Health Day on Tuesday, April 7. In this International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, World Health Day will shine a lightweight on the important function nurses and midwives play in offering well being care world wide, and name for a strengthening of the nursing and midwifery workforce. Share and promote World Health Day belongings here.

     

     

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  • WHO to accelerate action to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

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    harmful use of alcohol causes roughly Three million deaths yearly and the
    general burden of illness and accidents attributable to alcohol consumption
    stays unacceptably excessive. The tempo of improvement and implementation of
    alcohol insurance policies has been uneven in WHO areas, and assets and capacities
    for implementation of the WHO Global technique to reduce the harmful use of
    alcohol 10 years after its endorsement don’t correspond to the magnitude of
    the issues. On this foundation, the WHO Executive Board in its choice EB146
    (14)     known as for accelerated action to reduce the harmful use of
    alcohol. 

    The Board thought of the report on the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, notably Annex 3, entitled “Implementation of the global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol,” and the report on the findings of the consultative process on implementation of the global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol and the way forward.

    The Board, in its choice EB146 (14),  requested  the WHO Director-General, inter alia, “to develop an action plan (2022-2030) to effectively implement the Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol as a public health priority, in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, for consideration by the 75th World Health Assembly through the 150th session of the WHO Executive Board in 2022”, and “to develop a technical report on the harmful use of alcohol related to cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotional activities, including targeting youth and adolescents, before the 150th session of the WHO Executive Board, which could contribute to the development of the action plan”,  in addition to “to adequately useful resource the work on the harmful use of alcohol.

    In response to choice EB146 (14), the WHO Secretariat will implement the following:

    • March– April 2020: Commissioning of the scoping evaluate on the harmful use of alcohol associated to cross-border alcohol advertising and marketing, promoting and promotional actions, together with concentrating on youth and adolescents.  Commissioning background papers for the report improvement. 
    • ­April-May 2020: Producing zero draft of the working doc for improvement of an action plan (2022-2030) to successfully implement the Global technique to reduce the harmful use with proposed important parts and parts.  
    • ­June 2020: Technical professional conferences organized by WHO headquarters to talk about zero draft of the working doc for improvement of the action plan and the content material of the technical report on the harmful use of alcohol associated to cross-border alcohol advertising and marketing, promoting and promotional actions.  
    • ­July-September 2020: Finalization of the working doc for subsequent session course of. Web-based session on the working doc for improvement of the action plan open to Member States, UN organizations and different worldwide organizations, and non-State actors. All related suggestions acquired will probably be revealed on WHO web site. 
    • ­October 2020 – March 2021: Regional technical consultations with Member States on the working doc for improvement of the action plan (2022-2030). 
    • ­March– April 2021: Development of the first draft of the action plan primarily based on the enter acquired on the working doc in the course of of the regional consultations.
    • April -June 2021: The web-based session on the first draft of the action plan open to Member States, UN organizations and different worldwide organizations, and non-State actors.  All related suggestions acquired will probably be revealed on WHO web site. Discussion of the first draft at the Third WHO Forum on alcohol, medication and addictive behaviours attended by technical focal factors from Member States, representatives of UN entities, civil society organizations, WHO collaborating centres, and academia. Consultation with financial operators in alcohol manufacturing and commerce on their contribution to decreasing the harmful use of alcohol inside their core roles.  An casual session with Member States on the first draft of the action plan.
    • ­July-August 2021: Development of the second draft of the action plan primarily based on the suggestions acquired on the first draft throughout the earlier levels of the session course of. 
    • ­August-November 2021: Briefings on the second draft of the action plan organized at the Regional Committee conferences.  Release of the technical report on the harmful use of alcohol associated to cross-border alcohol advertising and marketing, promoting and promotional actions, together with concentrating on youth and adolescents, with a abstract of fundamental findings and conclusions out there in six languages.  A proper assembly of Member States for consideration of the second draft of the action plan. Finalization of the draft action plan considered suggestions and inputs acquired from Member States and different stakeholders throughout the session course of in April -October 2021.  Development and submission of the report by the Secretariat to 150th session of the Executive Board. 
    • ­January/February 2022: The 150th session of the WHO Executive Board will think about the report of the WHO Director-General containing the draft action plan (2022-2030) to successfully implement the Global technique to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.

     

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  • Africa Can’t Run Away From Coronavirus, Medical Expert Says

    Africa Can’t Run Away From Coronavirus, Medical Expert Says

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    A medical professional, Abu Clement Okolo, has stated that Africa can’t run away from Coronavirus, therefore the necessity to embrace the rules given by the World Health Organisation.

    Clement, who spoke to SaharaReporters on the preparedness of Nigeria and Africa as a complete, stated it’s unimaginable to foretell the potential turnout of occasions in Africa as many international locations on the continent usually are not ready for the pandemic.

    He additionally expressed fear about medical consultants contracting the illness.

    Last week, the Provost and Deputy Provost of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Ezekiel Olapade-Olaopa and Obafunke Denloye each examined constructive for the virus. 

    On the identical day, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Jesse A. Otegbayo, additionally examined constructive for the virus. 

    Speaking on the worldwide unfold of the virus that has now infested over a million individuals worldwide, Clement stated happenings in European nations solely go to indicate how unprepared Africa is.  

    He stated, “Corona shouldn’t be one thing we will run away from. Corona is actual. We, as scientists, know we aren’t ready in Africa for what is occurring.

    “What all people must do is to brace up, heed the social distancing, keep at dwelling. Nobody can say the flip of the occasion within the coming days.

    “If it’s beginning with the individuals on the prime of the medical group which is one of the best within the Nigerian setting, you possibly can think about what might occur.

    “My advice to everyone should abide by the WHO instructions—stay home. Believe in God and Make peace with God.”

    Nigeria has recorded 174 confirmed instances to date and two recorded deaths.

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  • Buhari: An Illiterate Jubril? By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

    Buhari: An Illiterate Jubril? By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

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    “President Buhari is an illiterate, he does not know what restructuring means, he is less concerned about the future of Nigeria, he is only bothered about his cows.”— Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Afenifere Chieftain and elder Nigerian statesman.

    Illiteracy is outlined by the dictionary merely as the lack to learn and write. Someone unable to learn or write might categorical themselves orally however when it comes all the way down to placing pen to paper or studying a guide or newspaper, as an illustration, their incapacity is uncovered to their disgrace. Nigeria boasts of tens of millions of instances of analphabetism particularly within the rural areas. While 1000’s graduate yearly from the colleges increasingly more numbers be part of the illiteracy class.

    Analphabetism is a harmful phenomenon given the ignorance it propagates. An illiterate is as harmful to themselves as they’re to the society at giant. That is why it’s mentioned that schooling will endlessly govern ignorance! Serious-minded and well-governed societies make investments closely in schooling as a result of it ensures each improvement and the longer term.

    President Muhammadu Buhari, even previous to his common election in 2015 and controversial ‘re-election’ final 12 months, had been embroiled in educational scandal bothering on his WAEC certificates. To the opposition he by no means possessed any; maybe he by no means sat for one. As a septuagenarian Buhari’s technology could possibly be mentioned debatably to have had little or no educational data, so his claims and counter-claims of the opposition concerning his academic profile are comprehensible.

    Litigations over his educational qualification for the presidency lingered for years with none definitive judicial pronouncement. He had as soon as claimed that his CV was with the navy excessive command! Yet the difficulty right here just isn’t whether or not he was certified to vie for the presidency or not however whether or not he dedicated perjury by affirming what he by no means possessed.

    A patriotic devoted ‘illiterate’ who demonstrated uncanny skill to offer management could also be preferable to a PHD holder who manifested crass incompetence in main a brand new technology of Nigerians. Former President Goodluck Jonathan was mentioned to be a PHD holder but his presidency was riddled with corruption and ineptitude. So the place is the educational hyperlink to sound management right here?

    We usually are not advocating for a Barkin Zuwo as President right here. Sound schooling and management has one thing in widespread globally however sure elements might present an avenue for ‘divorce’ particularly within the African political context.

    Is President Buhari a Jubril from Chad or Sudan? Nnamdi Kanu and his proscribed IPOB “terrorists” assume that the Buhari we knew earlier than he went for medical tourism that lasted months in London some years again had ‘died’ and was instantly changed surgically with a Jubril from Chad or Sudan. Why Sudan or Chad and never Niger or Guinea? The so-called Jubril might have come from elsewhere!

    Personally this commentator has by no means believed such wild declare as a result of there was by no means any tangible proof to help identical. It may be very low cost to allege that the primary citizen of a nation was useless and chirurgically changed with a look-alike with out the key leaking in a digitally-powered world.

    Telling us that proof existed within the President’s head coated all the time with cap is like asking us to replay Thomas biblically by seeing earlier than believing. Pray, how might anybody aside from the First Lady, Aisha, or the distinguished members of the infamous Aso Villa cabal ever see Buhari with out his customary cap? Or can we rent a detective to do the job for us by planting a digital camera in his toilet or bed room?

    A former Head of State, former Minister and former Chairman of the Petroleum Trust “Fraud” (apology to Ray Ekpu) can’t ordinarily be mentioned to not be certified to be President, one democratically elected. When he led us by the Jackboot within the early 80s nobody of their proper senses dared questioned his educational credentials. But that’s irrelevant.

    His case just isn’t distinctive in a continent the place barbarians and cannibals just like the late Idi Amin Dada of Uganda had dominated their nations ignorantly for many years. It is nothing particular in our continental political house the place the likes of ex-President Yahya Jammeh dictatorially caged the Gambians for many years; the place the likes of Dadis Camara dominated their Guinean animal kingdom.

    Is President Buhari an illiterate Jubril? Or higher nonetheless, is he a glorified illiterate? A Jubril from Sudan or Chad? Well, all issues thought-about we refuse to simply accept that our President can’t learn and write if sure educational indices are utilized. He couldn’t have been as good as Prof. Wole Soyinka in class or Alassane Ouattara as President however he ‘troopers’ on taking us all down the abyss of despair.

    To begin with it might quantity to uncharitable insolence to insinuate {that a} retired General who has put in a long time into the Nigerian navy service is barely educated or an outright case of analphabetism. It can’t stand any mental crucible.

    You don’t rise by the ranks and file in your chosen career as an illiterate, do you? Besides, he did navy programs overseas and these research had been carried out in English and never Hausa, Fulani or Fulfulde. It is subsequently disingenuous to say that Buhari is something close to illiteracy!

    The President could also be grammatically challenged; he might not be fluent sufficient, he could not possess the required presidential grit and charisma to guide an ideal nation like ours however that’s secondary in our reckoning. He could also be sluggish to taking selections and might not be conversant sufficient with world realities (Covid-19 pandemic for instance) however he has been ‘elected’ twice to offer management on the nationwide stage — though such management is manifestly missing in our embattled nation.

    The President might not be used to hiring and firing as circumstances dictate however nothing much less might have been anticipated from an outdated health-challenged lacklustre chief. The cabal led by Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari might have seized the chance to avoid energy by taking presidential selections on behalf of Buhari. But, happily, the ship of state continues to be afloat, not but run aground.

    SOC Okenwa

    soco_abj_2006_rci@hotmail.fr

     

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