The Gombe State Task Force on Covid-19’s Chairman, Prof. Idris Mohammed, has said that the personal protective equipment the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) donated were incomplete and that the committee intended to reject them.

Mohammed said this on Friday, April 10th, 2020, during the daily press conference on Covid-19 situation report in the state.

He said the committee had taken the donated equipment to the state governor to acknowledge the receipt of the supplies, which he noted would be accompanied by a rejection letter.

He said the decision to reject the incomplete personal protective equipment (PPE) was approved by the state government.

Yesterday (Thursday), we announced that some Personal Protective Equipment donated by the NCDC and the North-East Development Commission were substandard and so we are rejecting them,

he said.

Asking a member of the committee to display one of the PPE, Mohammed said,

As you can see, there is no face mask, no hand gloves. We have just gowns and we would need to buy the items that are missing.

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