NCDC made a clarification of its position in combating the outbreak of diseases within the nation.
Raymond Dokpesi Jnr. said he was discharged having contracted COVID-19 earlier with out seeing his test result.
NCDC coordinates the communication of outcomes between testing laboratories and States.
The Nigeria Centre for Illness Management (NCDC) has made a clarification of its position in combating the outbreak of diseases within the nation.
The health agency made the clarification after Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr. Said he was discharged having contracted COVID-19 earlier with out seeing his test result.
In a tweet which served as a response to the media mogul’s disclosure. The NCDC said that it coordinates the communication of outcomes between testing laboratories and States, who then talk with people.
NCDC’s tweet read; It is important to emphasise that the NCDC does not provide results to individuals .
Our role as the national public health institute is to coordinate the communication of results between testing laboratories and States. Who then talk with people.
In the meantime, founder of Daar Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, and two of his grandchildren have been discharged from the University of Abuja Treatment Centre. After testing negative for COVID-19 twice.
