.AmnestyNigeria Calls On NigeriaGov To Provide Personal Protective Equipment For Health Care Workers | Sahara Reporters The call follows an announcement by government that 40 health workers tested positive for COVID-19 in Nigeria. READ MORE:
Rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the Nigerian Government to ensure it provides health workers in the frontline of COVID-19 response with Personal Protective Equipment they need to attend to patients.
The statement reads, “Across Nigeria, health workers are facing extremely difficult and unsafe conditions of work, such as shortages of personal protective equipment, dilapidated and overstretched health facilities, unfair remuneration and harassment by security forces. Amnesty International said it interviewed some health workers, who raised concerns that they were working without adequate protection and in very difficult conditions.
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