Harboursandport.com: Lagos - In a bid to curb the dreaded Coronavirus coming into the country from
the nation’s seaport, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA has deployed health personnel,
protective gears and ambulance to the quayside across the ports in the nation.
Disclosing this in Lagos, the General Manager in
charge of Corporate and Strategic Communications of the NPA, Adams Jato, said
that already staff of the Authority have been education what to look out for as
well as what to do when a suspected case is discovered.
He explained that this week NPA will hold a workshop with stakeholders
to sensitise them on the virus, what to look out for and how to protect
themselves when a suspected case is discovered.
According to him, “What we are actually doing now is enlighten our staff
and other stakeholders of the procedure and the protocols. For instance, if a ship is coming to berth, our pilots are well informed that if they sense or
sees suspect of any kind relating to the coronavirus; that ship is detained at
the anchorage so we have what we call the yellow flag which is going to raised.
Then we call the Port Health and other Health Workers to go inside the
vessel and see the extent that is involved. If there is any case reported,
we already have an ambulance that is on standby in case it becomes so serious,
the ambulance will now hand over to the state government and take them to where
they have to do all the necessary test.
“Yes, the measure is in all the major ports, specifically we are present
at all the entry point for some of these things but everybody is looking at Lagos
and as well as Port Harcourt.
“We have deployed all our materials for them to be using sanitizers,
gloves and some of these are the pilots have to be used and people who are coming
to the ports.
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