US President Donald Trump has
finally fulfilled his promise to send ventilators to Nigeria.
Trump, in a telephone
conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari in April, pledged to support Nigeria’s
response to COVID-19 by sending ventilators.
However, the ventilators got to
Nigeria five months after the US president made the promise.
While receiving 200 ventilators
on behalf of the federal government from the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) at a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Osagie Ehanire, minister
of health, said medical items are critical to saving the lives of persons who
have been severely affected by COVID-19.
The minister said life has not
been the same for Nigerians since the first COVID-19 case was recorded in
February.
“This donation consists of 200
ventilators, which, as we all know by now, are a critical component of the
response strategy to save the lives of persons who have been severely impacted
by this viral infection,” he said.
“They will certainly be of great
benefit to the people of Nigeria and I wish to convey the appreciation of His
Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and
of the government of Nigeria, to President Donald Trump and the United States
Government for the generous consideration and friendly gesture.
“The Federal Ministry of Health,
and its public health Agency, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),
have focused on providing guidance to tackle the challenges.
“Our health workers have been
trained and equipped and are doing the needful to attend to COVID-19 patients
and give emergency care, while not losing sight of routine and essential health
services.”
Ehanire asked the US to lend its full
weight to global efforts in finding vaccine against COVID-19.
“The speed and ease with which
COVID-19 has spread across the globe clearly shows that it is a threat to
mankind. Without the full collaboration of all nations, the threat of covid to
any one part of the world is a threat to all,” he said.
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