Again, Military trains 220 personnel for COVID-19 response
After training 80 of its medical personnel on COVID-19 case Management/Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) over a month ago, the Nigerian Military said it has concluded plans to organize a fresh Train-the-Trainer programme for another 220 personnel.
Maj. Gen. John Enenche, who disclosed this in media briefing, said the COVID-19 case management/IPC training will be conducted in 8 designated military centres across the country.
He listed the centres to include Headquarters 1 Division Kaduna, 6 Division Port Harcourt, 7 Division Maiduguri, 81 Division Lagos and Headquarters 82 Division Enugu.
Others are Headquarters Eastern Naval Command Calabar, Headquarters Tactical Air Command Makurdi and Headquarters Guards Brigade Abuja.
“The total number will be 300 personnel at the end of this training,” Enenche, who is the Coordinator of the Defence Media Operations (DMO), said.
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He recalled that at the commencement of Armed Forces of Nigeria’s intervention in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic, 21 medical facilities were made available for the isolation and treatment of coronavirus patients.
Enenche said: “Additionally, 80 medical personnel were concentrated in Abuja and trained on COVID-19 case Management/Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), who were thereafter deployed to different geo-political zones of the Country and the FCT.
“Due to rising cases of COVID-19 in the country, it was considered necessary to train additional personnel in selected Hospitals across the Armed Forces of Nigeria to boost the capacity of medical personnel in the management of COVID-19.”
“DMO Coordinator, also The training package is a Train-the-Trainer, where the beneficiaries are expected to train other personnel at hospitals, related medical facilities and other places of deployment, to enhance capacity building in the management of the pandemic.”
