By Ismail Auwal
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) issued a list of 42 government-owned testing centers on Sunday, alleging that they failed to test COVID-19 samples from inbound and outbound passengers and send results.
The University College Hospital in Ibadan, Jos University Teaching Hospital, and the Federal Medical Centre in Katsina are among those listed.
In a statement, the NCDC’s Director General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, stated that the country would continue to require COVID-19 test results from inbound and outbound passengers.
According to the NCDC director, the country has reported 18,000 imported cases of COVID-19 from other countries in a short period of time.
The center listed 42 government-owned testing laboratories that failed to test samples from passengers and send reports in its most recent epidemiological report.
The centres are the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano; Osun state University Teaching Hospital; Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital; SSH (Kogi); PLASVREC (Plateau), Bayero University Kano; ZANKLI GX Lab, (Nasarawa); Yobe State Specialist Hospital, Yobe; University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Cross River; University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital; Taraba State Specialist Hospital; University College Hospital, Oyo; USUMH (Borno); Federal Medical Centre, Katsina; and GH Kagarko (Kaduna).
Others include FMC (Owerri); DLHMH (Cross River); FMCG (Zamfara); Sobi IDH (Kwara); NASIDARC (Nasarawa); YDMH Genexpert (Kaduna); GH Takum (Taraba); Mobile Truck GX (Kaduna); GH Saminaka (Kaduna); O2 (Lagos); FMC Bida (Niger); NVRI (Plateau); ABU, (Kaduna); JUTH (Plateau); YDMSH, (Kaduna); FMC Birnin Kebbi, (Kebbi);UNTH (Enugu);MOGID, (Bauchi); BML (Bayelsa); GH Ikara (Kaduna); Warri Lab (Delta); Delta Mobile Lab (Delta);GAGH (Kaduna);FMC Makurdi (Benue);FMCJ (Taraba);BDTH (Kaduna); and SEZTBRL Amachara (Abia).
