Nigerian health workers In laboratories and isolation centres round the country are integral to the national response to COVID-19. Some of these health workers are taking on significant personal risk and too often working without adequate equipment.
As part of our $1.8 Million multi country sourcing initiative for COVID-19 Medical supplies, we are distributing 331,000 pieces of personal protection gear through the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). These critical protective equipment will protect 10,000 Nigerian health workers across the nation, as they battle to bring the pandemic under control.
These include:
Also to aid health to COVID-19 patients in isolation centres we have procured and distributed 75 life-saving ventilators to…