The doctors were infected in the line of duty
12 doctors at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital who tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered, Lanre Olosunde, the President of Association of Resident Doctors , UITH chapter, has said.
“We actually sensitised our members and that went a long way to help our members to prepare for the scourge., the Federal Government via our national body to help us and we got donations of Personal Protective Equipment from them.“Presently, I will say we had a fairly moderate supply of Personal Protective Equipment , though not sufficient. But as at now our members have enough of PPE,” he said.
“The Federal Government has agreed to pay us what they called special COVID allowance. The Federal Government has paid 50 per cent of our basic salary. The ARD president said he was optimistic that Nigeria would survive the pandemic, adding there was a time smallpox was killing people and the country survived it.“There was a time we had HIV, we had Ebola too, and we survived it. But how did we survive it?
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