Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, has said he was unaware of
the location of 15 Chinese nationals, who recently came into the
country to “help in the fight against COVID-19”.
On April 8,
2020, a Chinese medical team arrived the country with medical supplies
to provide advice to the Nigerian Government on the fight against
Coronavirus.
Ehanire while speaking during the daily COVID-19
Presidential Task Force briefing on Thursday however, revealed that not
all of the visitors earlier announced as medics have something to do
with the medical profession.
Nigeria Health Minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire
He added that the 15 Chinese were not guests of the Nigerian
Government but of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.
He said, “I think not all of them were doctors and I heard that some of them are technicians, but they are staff of CCECC.
“The Ministry of Health is not their host, so we can’t always
explain what happened to them or where they are. There seems to be a lot
of interest in these doctors. But they are the staff of the company and
I think that they are on a company visa.
“But we have been able
to learn some things from them by interacting with them from their
experience in their country and they did tell us and we shared ideas on
what they did in their country in managing COVID-19.”