Yobe State University has commenced the production of face masks for its staff, the neighbouring communities and for the Committee on COVID-19 in the state, as part of its social responsibility against the spread of coronavirus.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Mala Daura who displayed the products to Channels Television, said the face masks were locally produced by the Departments of Microbiology and Biological sciences.According to him, the locally made face masks are affordable and can be washed with detergents compared to the imported ones.
He explained that the university has the capacity to produce face masks that can go round the state if funds are made available to the university, especially now that the Federal Government has ordered for compulsory use. The institution had earlier produced and distributed hand sanitizers to staff and some villages in Damaturu, the state capital.
Some face masks produced cannot prevent the virus from penetrating through them to the body.
Unknowingly to all of you criticizing this facemask production, u should bear in mins that this is the hit period that a common man need to feel the impact of the government towards his safety.
Good innovation kudos to YSU.
It's shameful that we're announcing face masks by a university
Brilliant idea! If other states follow suit, it will go a long way to fight this common enemy
So this the best an institution of learning can come up with? Face mask that is being mass produced at Aba market. Shame on Nigeria. Nigerian universities are just lesson centrers.
When will a university in Nigeria compete with other universities around the globe? And u need funds to produce face mask when a primary school pupil can do that. thisisnigeria
Is this what a whole institution of higher learning should be proud to say in Nigeria, when an apprentice in Aba does it, please this kind of post is not what we are expecting to be published in channels TV please nigeriantribune adeyanjudeji SaharaReporters MBuhari
They can do better. How about some test kits for covid-19
And this makes your headline... Face mask by a whole citadel of learning... London tailors have been making money from face mask from time immemorial
Where not ventilators. A local tailor can even produce that.