The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has explained how
no fewer than 20 members of the union died of COVID-19 in the last
one week.
NMA Chairman in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Enema
Amodu, disclosed this to reporters at a briefing on Friday in
Abuja.
He noted that the late medical doctors contracted the disease in
the course of treating infected patients who failed to disclose
their true health status.
Dr Amodu, however, called on patients visiting clinics and
hospitals to declare their true health status to avoid exposing
doctors and other health workers to the risk of disease
infection.
He said, “For those of us in the health sector, we have lost
quite a number of colleagues in the last one week alone. Across the
country, we have lost not less than 20 doctors in the last one
week.”
“We also want to use this opportunity to talk to our patients;
as you come to us in the hospitals, in the clinics, please oblige
us.
“Wear your mask. Tell us the truth about your past medical
condition and don’t hold any information back,” he added.
Enema Amodu, briefs reporters in Abuja on December 25,
2020.
Second Wave, More Catastrophic
As more doctors and health workers are contracting COVID-19, the
NMA FCT chairman appealed to the government to improve supplies of
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the medical facilities.
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He also called for the provision of essential drugs in the
hospitals, saying the doctors were ready to combat the second wave
of the virus.
According to Dr Amodu who is an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT)
surgeon and consultant, it is important for patients coming to
hospitals to fully disclose their health status as he once
contracted the disease from an infected patient.
“I am the Chairman of NMA, FCT and by the special grace of God,
I am standing here today as a survivor because I inadvertently saw
a patient that I didn’t know had COVID-19 and she didn’t tell me,
and she knew.
“I was exposed, I contacted the virus, I developed symptoms but
by the grace of God, my colleagues rallied around me and I
survived,” he revealed.
The medical doctor said, “This second wave is so overwhelming;
this second wave is more catastrophic, and this probably would be
because a lot of people have gone back to the way of doing
things.
“They have thought that the virus is over, it has come, and it
is gone, and they have let their guards down.”
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Two thousand Nigerians and foreign nationals have been rescued
from kidnappers in Zamfara State, Governor Bello Matawalle has
said.
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The governor said they were rescued in the past 19 months under
his watch, adding that the feat was made possible by using former
bandits as negotiators.
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Matawalle gave the information when he hosted the National
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Uche Secondus who
was in Abuja to condole him on the loss of eight members of the
emir’s entourage.
According to him, no ransom was paid in the rescuing of
kidnapped victims in the state, adding that logic and dialogue had
always been deployed.
The governor stated that President Muhammadu Buhari was
adequately briefed on every security measures undertaken to secure
lives and properties.
Matawalle said his resolve to operate an open door policy was to
offer support to security agencies in the state.
He said: “We have recovered a lot of dangerous weapons which was
given to the security agencies of Nigeria and we have rescued about
2,000 kidnapped victims including some foreign nationals.
“These include people from China, Korea, Niger republic, Burkina
Faso and even Central Africa who were kidnapped and taken to
Zamfara state.
“All we are concerned with is to see our people go to sleep with
their eyes closed and that is the responsibility of every
government to provide security for the lives and properties of
which we are doing.”
Matawalle urged all state governors to put aside political
differences and put a united front to rid the country of all
criminal elements and activities, especially banditry.
Secondus, who warned that in the absence of law and order there
would be anarchy, said “security and hunger knows no party.”
He described as an “uncommon feat” the rescue of the over 300
students of the Government Science Secondary School, abducted from
Kankara, Katsina State.