Fight against “COVID-19”: French leader in Aluminium shipbuilding OCEA supports Nigerian military hospital with 30 ventilators

As part of efforts to curtail and manage the spread of the global pandemic, COVID-19, a French leader in Aluminium Shipbuilding firm OCEA has donated 30 ventilators to tool the military hospital earmarked for isolation and treatment of COVID-19 patients.

The company noted that the ventilators will complement the efforts that have already been made by the government towards fighting the virus.

During the presentation event of the ventilators to the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas at the Naval Headquarters Abuja, Country Representative of OCEA, Mr Yemi Aluko pointed out that in developed countries, Presidents and other top government functionaries are treated in military hospitals.

Yemi Aluko said: “When the former Chief of Staff to the President was flown to Lagos for treatment of COVID-19 in a private facility, I told the CNS the need to give priority attention to military hospitals as it is the practice in other countries. I thereafter pledged to donate 50 ventilators as part of the company’s Corporate Social responsibility and contribution to the fight against the global pandemic.”

“We had already donated 20 ventilators to the federal government which was received by Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr Mustapha. Today we are donating the remaining 30 to the Nigerian Navy. We have 10 at the warehouse of the Western Naval Command and 20 has been transported down to Abuja,” he said.

While receiving the donation, the Chief of Naval Staff CNS, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, praised the company for their donation, saying that it will help in no small measures in combating the threats of COVID-19 pandemic.