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COVID-19: Kano May Become Like Wuhan In China, Warns EX-NHIS ES

Usman Yusuf, former NHIS Executive Secretary (right) By Tayo Olu April 26, 2020 | EASTERN PILOT A Nigerian professor of medicine...

Usman Yusuf, former NHIS Executive Secretary (right)



By Tayo Olu

April 26, 2020 | EASTERN PILOT


A Nigerian professor of medicine, Usman Yusuf, has warned that Kano State may become like China’s former epicentre of Coronavirus (COVID-19), Wuhan, if the federal government should fail to quickly arrest the situation in the state.

This is the second time professor Usman, the immediate past Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), would be calling on the federal and Kano state governments to take urgent steps to address the rising cases of COVID-19 in the state.

The professor of Haematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation had earlier warned that the state may become the epicentre of COVID-19 in Africa following reports that a “strange disease” had killed at least 150 people within 48 hours in the state.

Usman, on Saturday, issued another warning to the government as well as recommendations that may help to address the Kano situation.

“Today, I raise my voice again, this time to join the growing chorus of people both within and outside the State who are horrified by Kano State Government’s (KNSG) cavalier response to this pandemic seeing it as a growing danger to the lives of people in Kano, its neighbors and also a threat to our National Security.

“Nigeria as a nation needs to wake up to the ever-present danger of the cascading domino effect of COVID-19 infection in Kano spreading to the Northwest zone, the Northwest zone infects the rest of the North, the North infects the whole nation, Nigeria infects the West African subregion, which then infects the rest of Africa, thereby destabilizing the whole continent,” he said.

The professor regretted that the Kano branch of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had to be shut down after officials of the agency contracted the virus because they were allegedly not provided with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).


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