Nigeria Journey to COVID-19

By Adeyemi Johnson 

Covid 19 is here and is going to get a lot worse in the coming weeks-months. Our neglected, broken down healthcare system simply cannot handle what is headed our way. The numbers being published are a major under estimation . We do not have the resources to test extensively. NIGERIA is on the same trajectory as Italy, Spain and  the US without the resources those countries have. Thousands are going to die barring a miracle of sorts. 

So you have an idea of the magnitude of the problem: it is estimated that when the outbreak peaks in Nigeria 4000 ventilators will be needed. Currently there are less than 200 in the country and none available to buy.  The whole world is short supply. The worst part of all of this is we import all our medical supplies, we don’t make a damn thing. Most of our young doctors and nurses have gone abroad and are fighting the covid battle in other countries that have embraced them. WE SHOULD BE VERY ASAHAMED OF OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS AND A NATION. 

How did we get here? 

The more important question is how do we get ourselves out of this pit we have collectively dug. Pointing fingers is not the solution, perhaps looking at a mirror will give some insight. We fought Ebola and we will overcome Covid 19

Dr. Olusegun Peter Nubi’s view

I made same depositions on my facebook wall. This is not about being a prophet of doom...it is learning from other country's experience. EVIL DAYS LIE AHEAD. LORD HAVE MERCY ON NIGERIA! LORD HAVE MERCY!!!

To make the matter worse. These same elites and politicians who got us here by cornering the sovereign wealth of our nation instead of building and equipping our heath facilities and making healthcare free for everyone are also the ones who travelled overseas and refused to be quarantined. They are the same that refused to shut down the borders until community infestation got in! They are the same that "advised" those coming from overseas to "self quarantine".

Ghana never advised, Uganda never advised... they shut down their gaddem borders!

While we will not sit blaming anyone for now, it is important that Nigerians get to know who betrayed them! Perhaps a day of reckoning would come and we will make sure that as a nation, never are we going to allow ourselves pushed this far!

What says you?