Posted on: Sat 25-04-2020

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in response to the fast-emerging, highly infectious disease COVID-19 caused by SARS CoV-2, is committed to building stronger collaboration with Government at all levels and with other stakeholders’ collating and disseminating new information; facilitating the deployment of new technologies and above all proposing policy options with the best chance of success for sharing with policy makers. We commend the efforts of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to incorporate the high throughout ROCHE platforms (3nos.) and Genexpert machines (400 nos.) in both the public and private sectors into the testing architecture for the country. Over time commencing with this communication we will be supporting policy makers and stakeholders with evidence based policy perspectives that will help defeat the virus in our country. In line with above commitment we present the following policy options advisory.

 

 

 

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