President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Prof Innocent Ujah on Monday disclosed that no fewer than 1,031 doctors in Nigeria have been exposed to coronavirus in the country while 16 mortality cases were recorded as of 8th October 2020, putting the mortality rate at 4.98 per cent. The NMA president also decried the underfunding of the health sector in the country.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos to announce the NMA 2020 Physicians' Week with the theme "Strategy for health system recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria" and sub-theme: "Dental caries: The four-pronged fork." Ujah said out of the 1,031 cases, 321 were confirmed while 16 doctors were painfully lost in the battle.
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