Very Soon, Hospitals Won’t Be Able To Handle Serious Covid-19 – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC says the country is now reaching a critical level where the capacity of hospitals will no longer be able to cope with more serious COVID-19 cases.


Taking to twitter, the Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this in a series of tweets on Monday while reacting to the spike in COVID-19 infections in the last one month.
Ihekweazu said this as the fear of COVID-19 spread at the National Identity Management Commission grew on Monday because Nigerians besieged the NIMC offices following the workers’ suspension of the strike they embarked upon on Thursday.

Recall that Nigerians have been trooping to the NIMC offices since December 14, 2020 when the Federal Government ordered telecommunications firms to disconnect telephone lines of subscribers who failed to link their NIN to their subscriber identification modules.
No fewer than 164 million Nigerians, whose telephone lines could be disconnected on the grounds of not having the NIN, have thrown caution overboard, thronging NIMC offices and disregarding COVID-19 protocols such as wearing of face masks and social distancing.
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The matter came to a head on Thursday when the NIMC workers began a strike over the fear of COVID-19 spread in the agency.
The President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC unit, Asekokhai Lucky, had exclusively told news men on Thursday that three workers of the agency at its headquarters had been infected with COVID-19.
However, The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora had disclosed on Monday that the Federal Government might soon suspend the registration for the NIN.
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The minister said, “My understanding is that the whole process may be suspended so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd because it was never intended that it would become a rowdy process like that. So people may have to wait and be called at intervals to go through the process.”
But later at a press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mamora ruled out the suspension or postponement of the NIN, blaming the challenges on the attitude of Nigerians, stressing the need to avoid crowding as was seen under the guise of NIN enrolment.

He said, “there is absolutely no cause for this, if only people would voluntarily comply with advisories and guidelines as issued by the Ministry of Communications and its relevant agency.”
Mamora added that the result from the tests conducted on prospective National Youth Service Corps members had confirmed that no part of the country was free of COVID-19.
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The minister also said that the plan of the Federal Government regarding activation of oxygen availability in the states was on course with a view to effecting immediate repairs of non-functional oxygen plants.
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