What COVID-19 treatments and recoveries teach

Every evening, our country’s center for diseases control, the NCDC (Nigerian Centre for Diseases Control) loads our screens with statistics about the novel coronavirus. Across social media platforms are waiting eyes to view, fingers to share and of course hearts to worry. Whereas, it may be reasonable to worry about the potential for an overrunning […]

Every evening, our country’s center for diseases control, the NCDC (Nigerian Centre for Diseases Control) loads our screens with statistics about the novel coronavirus.

Across social media platforms are waiting eyes to view, fingers to share and of course hearts to worry.

Whereas, it may be reasonable to worry about the potential for an overrunning not just the nation’s medical facilities but the sustained negative impact on the economy also.

It is important to have a take home that is not only also reasonable but a matter of fact.

It behooves us to therefore to consider how far our Nigerian Healthcare system has sailed in the rough and dangerous waters. Despite its challenges and limitations, our country’s healthcare system is clearly doing well in its handling of the dreaded Coronavirus disease. If we take a few seconds to consider the figures, we’d see how significant it is for us to have recorded about 200 recoveries from such a disease as deadly as COVID-19.

This is a key indicator that our destiny and all its potentials for success have not completely run out of luck yet. We continue to hold on to these flickers of hope for our future as a people, and letting nothing quench it. We nurture these possibilities by doing our own bits and continously demanding improved performance from those who have agreed to take up leadership positions.

It is my desire to see more and more young people across the country at the forefront of this awakening. Either actively by being hardworking and accountable as leaders, or as social entrepreneurs, we must not let down our nation. As for you COVID-19, by the power of the Lord and by the unbreakable force of our will, your days are indeed numbered. We will win you very soon.

 

Tade Joseph SSA Security to Governor Yahaya Bello (in charge of Yagba West) writes in from Kogi