Magnus Onyibe
Magnus Onyibe, a former member of the Delta State Executive Council laments the parlous state of healthcare in Nigeria, drawing his conclusions from COVID-19 casualties
As l exhale and remain thankful to God for the escape of my family and l from the tumultuous year 2020 that tormented mankind with Coronavirus; and as l and other survivors of the horrific 2020, bid the year with the most unprecedented holly burly, good bye, l welcome year 2021 with the hope that, since over six types of Coronavirus vaccines are already in use in both Western and Eastern Europe as well as China , the worse may be over with the COVID-19 pandemic that has in the space of less than one year, extraordinarily exterminated nearly two million lives world wide, and nearly 1,500 in Nigeria, and still counting . I particularly recall with great pains in my heart , Dr Ted lkem Gbemudu, who yielded up the ghost on New Year Day, 2021 after being struck by Coronavirus.