A global diaspora of medical workers now looks toward home

JOHANNESBURG -- The medical supplies had been shipped. The planning began a year in advance. Then the coronavirus arrived, and Dr. Charmaine Emelife's heart sank.

"There are said to be no commercial passenger flights going into Nigeria from the U.S., and the U.S. is not receiving the same flights," Emelife, the Nigerian association's president, told The Associated Press. "The issue of going back to Nigeria at this point to help is not a conversation." Currently, Nigeria's cases number nearly 500, but health experts say Africa is just weeks behind Europe and the U.S. in the pandemic and the worst is yet to come.

Emelife said even such items as soap and clean water are needed in parts of Nigeria. Africa's most populous nation recently surpassed India with the world's largest number of people living in extreme poverty. "For us, the death really brought it close to home," Ahiaku, the group's vice-president, said. "We want to help out. That desire is more acute when there's a crisis."

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