COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World

The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic has caused countless governmental and societal challenges around the world. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has been exposed in recent years to a series of epidemics including Ebola and Lassa fever. In this paper, we document our perception of the national respo...

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Autores principales: Oleribe, Obinna O, Osita-Oleribe, Princess, Salako, Babatunde L, Ishola, Temitope A, Fertleman, Michael, Taylor-Robinson, Simon D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Expert Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32848447
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S261256
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Osita-Oleribe, Princess
Salako, Babatunde L
Ishola, Temitope A
Fertleman, Michael
Taylor-Robinson, Simon D
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description The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic has caused countless governmental and societal challenges around the world. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has been exposed in recent years to a series of epidemics including Ebola and Lassa fever. In this paper, we document our perception of the national response to COVID-19 in Nigeria. The response to the pandemic is with a healthcare system that has changed as a result of previous infectious disease outbreaks but in the context of scarce resources typical of many low-middle income countries. We make recommendations regarding what measures should be in place for future epidemics.
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spelling pubmed-74292202020-08-25 COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World Oleribe, Obinna O Osita-Oleribe, Princess Salako, Babatunde L Ishola, Temitope A Fertleman, Michael Taylor-Robinson, Simon D Int J Gen Med Expert Opinion The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic has caused countless governmental and societal challenges around the world. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has been exposed in recent years to a series of epidemics including Ebola and Lassa fever. In this paper, we document our perception of the national response to COVID-19 in Nigeria. The response to the pandemic is with a healthcare system that has changed as a result of previous infectious disease outbreaks but in the context of scarce resources typical of many low-middle income countries. We make recommendations regarding what measures should be in place for future epidemics. Dove 2020-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7429220/ /pubmed/32848447 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S261256 Text en © 2020 Oleribe et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World
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title_fullStr COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World
title_short COVID-19 Experience: Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Prevent Avoidable Morbidity and Mortality in Nigeria and Other Nations of the World
title_sort covid-19 experience: taking the right steps at the right time to prevent avoidable morbidity and mortality in nigeria and other nations of the world
topic Expert Opinion
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32848447
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S261256
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