By our eporter|The Federal Government on Thursday said it plans to provide a 10-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in every state of the Federation, as part of strategies to provide critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Nigeria’s minister of health, Osagie Ehanire who made the disclosure in continuation of the series of presidential briefings coordinated by the Communications Team at the State House in Abuja, gave an assurance that the focus on COVID-19 prevention and treatment would not wipe out the maintenance of normal routine vaccination.
Thursday’s edition of the meeting focused on the health sector and plans for the smooth roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines received recently by the government.
According to Ehanire, the Federal Ministry of Health intends to develop as a matter of urgency the nation’s emergency medical service to respond to persons with medical distress.
The minister who stressed the need to continue with the public health measures, noted that there was no specific treatment for COVID-19 but trials to improve therapeutics.
Also speaking at the event, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed that the agency would soon commence a ‘track and trace’ exercise,
to mitigate and potentially halt the infiltration of falsified and sub-standard COVID-19 vaccines already detected in the global supply chain.
She revealed that an indigenous software was also being employed to check the authenticity of received products.
According to her, NAFDAC was collaborating with the Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to ensure safe monitoring of medicines in the market.
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