The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has made an intervention of
$30 million (N11 billion) to help combat the Coronavirus disease
pandemic and its attendant impact on the Nigerian economy.
The NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, announced the intervention initiative on Friday in Abuja.
The
GMD said the intervention, which was done in collaboration with its
partners in the oil and gas industry, was in line with the Federal
Government’s ongoing efforts to curb COVID-19 spread in the country.
Kyari
said the intervention was aimed at supporting the country’s healthcare
delivery facilities and would cover three major areas: Provision of
medical consumables; deployment of logistics and in-patient support
system; and delivery of medical infrastructure.
Kyari said: “The
three thematic support initiatives amount to a total of $30 million (N11
billion) and will be delivered in phases, starting today.
“To
address the increasing demand of medical services, we are immediately
providing medical consumables covering testing kits, medical protective
suits and ambulances to the highly impacted areas across the federation.
“This
will be followed, in the next few days, with the deployment of
ventilators, beds and temporary intensive care facilities across the
geopolitical zones of the federation.”
The industry players that
partnered with the NNPC to make the intervention possible include the
Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Limited, Oando Oil Limited, Oriental
Energy Resources Limited, Pilar Oil Limited, Platform Petroleum Limited,
SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Plc and Shoreline Natural
Resources.
Others are Suntrust Oil Company Nigeria Limited, Vertex
Energy Limited, Waltersmith Petroleum Oil Limited and Yinka Folawiyo
Petroleum Limited among others.
