Healthcare Workers To Receive Coca-Cola-Funded PPEs From Nigerian Red Cross

For the reason that outbreak of the Coronavirus illness in Nigeria, our healthcare employees have continued to guide the cost towards the illness. Because the variety of recorded COVID-19 instances in Nigeria started to extend, these healthcare employees rose to the problem and fought tirelessly to guard the lives of Nigerians impacted by the illness.

Contemplating the dangers these healthcare employees face, there’s a essential want for satisfactory protecting tools for these courageous frontline employees.

Coca-Cola is happy that over 400,000 Private Protecting Tools (PPEs) procured to help the intervention efforts of the Nigerian Authorities and different key stakeholders to combat the COVID 19 pandemic have arrived. We do imagine that this can to offer succor to our healthcare employees on the frontlines

These PPEs comprise N95 respirators, surgical masks, examination gloves, face shields, medical robes, no-touch thermometers, disposable aprons, heavy-duty rubber gloves, rubber boots, primary masks, disposable gloves, and hand sanitizers.

For the reason that first confirmed case of the illness in Nigeria reported in February, over 800 healthcare employees have contracted the illness. Whereas Nigerians are inspired to remain house the place potential and observe social distancing, these healthcare employees are wanted throughout the nation within the continued combat towards the illness.

This donation kinds a part of The Coca-Cola Basis’s COVID-19 reduction interventions in Nigeria. The Coca-Cola Basis has supplied $2.5m in grant to IFRC who seeks to immediately affect the lives of 1.four million individuals in Nigeria and throughout different nations in West and Central Africa beneath this partnership.