Prof. Babatunde Lawal Salako is the Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) Yaba, Lagos. Salako in this exclusive interview with The Guardian said NIMR has capacity to diagnose, sequence and contain coronavirus. We decided to establish a NIMR Research Foundation, which will be a public-private outfit. For example the federal government through Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) fund research in the universities. As a research institute, we should have a hospital where our research patients attend, where we will do our clinical trials on drugs, on diagnostic devices.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 04:41 UTC