Exhausted Nigerian doctors wait for vaccines
Medics at Abuja's EHA clinic in Nigeria are exhausted.
They are facing long lines of coronavirus patients, and another long wait for news of a vaccine.
Though Europe has been inoculating its people since December, African health authorities say it could be weeks - even months - until they get their first shots.
Dr Oluwajoba Oroge says cases are mounting every day, stocks of PPE are dwindling and he and his colleagues are feeling increasingly drained.
"The cases will continue to rise if we don't have a vaccine to stem things, a vaccine to even give us a herd immunity so that continues to mean more work stress, more mental stress, more stress on all the resources that I as an individual and the facility has to offer."
It's not just patients' lives at risk.
More than 2,600 Nigerian doctors have contracted COVID-19 - and dozens of them have died.
Dr Adetunji Adenekan, chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association's Lagos branch, adds doctors are even leaving the country due to the strain.
"We have depleting numbers even before this COVID-19 pandemic through brain drain and even during this pandemic a lot of doctors have left the shores of this country so we are depleted every day by the minute and yet we are combating a lot of cases, as it is now that the cases are rising. "
Last month, the country's health minister said he hoped to see the first vaccines arriving through the global COVAX scheme in January.
But he gave no precise timings - and made no mention of which shot Nigeria would get.
African states have accused richer regions of cornering most of the supplies.
World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday (January 18) that the world was on the brink of "catastrophic moral failure" when it came to sharing out shots.
Privately, some doctors are worried that when vaccines do arrive in Nigeria, they will go first to the rich and powerful.
