“These drugs we are mostly using are on trial and they are working and promising until there is a confirmed vaccine – we promise to use it.”
Mohammed said the development resulted from the order by Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi to treat COVID-19 patients with chloroquine to avoid deaths in the state.
He said 24 health workers in the state tested positive for COVID-19 while on duty. According to him, 17 of them are from the Federal Medical Centre , Azare, Katagum Council, while seven were from Bauchi, the state capital. He disclosed this at the weekend while addressing journalists on the activists of COVID-19 committee members.
His words, “Those also involved are specialised medical consultants whose service will be required especially in co-morbidity-related complications, as the allowances have been categorised as follows: consultants will be paid N20,000 daily, medical officers N15,000 while nurses, pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists get N10,000.
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