The Nigeria Center for Disease Control said on Tuesday, that testing for coronavirus is no longer its problem at the moment as it now has 12 molecular diagnostic laboratories across the country, but that samples collections and other response activities are the major challenges to overcome.
“The challenge right now is not the laboratory testing capacity, but how active our public health workforce is in collecting samples, identifying suspect cases, and sending them into the labs for testing. “We have achieved this largely by leveraging on existing molecular laboratory capacity within our network and within some centres across the country. We now have a capacity to test 1,500 people per day across the network. We are not close to exhausting this capacity every day.“The challenge is no longer with the labs, at least not now; the challenge is collecting samples from those we identify as suspect cases.
“In addition to the work in Lagos, we have to replicate it across the country. State Governors and Commissioners need to focus on how to get teams into the fields, identify cases, collect samples, send those samples through the mechanisms that we have set up, and let us increase testing. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire added: “We have increased daily testing capacity by activating more COVID-19 capable laboratories and shall work with the private sector to outsource and diversify sample collection sites and also improve logistic support.
There are enough Health Workers in the country resting at home doing nothing just call on them tonight and you will get more you need in those areas tomorrow morning.
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