The COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on all health services in the country as the Federal Government says outpatient visits to hospitals nationwide have reduced by half.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who stated this on Thursday at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said that latest statistics obtained by the Federal Government showed that pregnant women and other outpatients’ visits to hospitals had dropped by half.Ehanire, however, said the gradual easing of the lockdown in the country would address the problems.
On May 3, the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta confirmed that the virus killed a pregnant woman in the hospital on May 1. “All these failings have yet undetermined consequences, which the easing of the lockdown should hopefully address. However, easing restrictions has to be balanced by citizens complying with protective and prophylactic advisories, and to encourage relatives, friends, neighbours and customers to do the same.”
Ehanire clarified that the ministry would not give money to those carrying out or intending to carry out such researches. Furthermore, the health minister said, “As regards the deaths in Kano, I can report that the so-called unexplained deaths were not only in Kano, but they have also been recorded or mentioned in connection with some other states. And the team that left for Kano is looking at all these and creating a protocol and a system to look into these unexplained deaths.
The SGF, however, said airlifting the solution was not a priority of the task force as there were other issues before it. The PTF chairman lamented that evaluation of the implementation of the guidelines on the easing of the lockdown showed a high level of noncompliance. The SGF commended health workers for being dutiful and rising to the challenge, saying a total of 1,071 Nigerians had already been discharged from the various isolation and treatment centres.The PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, said the task force could not fund all the research bodies due to its low budget, urging researchers to source grants from donor agencies.
He also advised Nigerians to stop stigmatisation of people with COVID-19. He added that research had shown that those that recovered had an antibody that could protect them.Meanwhile, some senators have raised the alarm that the uncontrolled movement of some northern children, popularly known asThey urged governors of the southern part of the country to put more stringent security measures in place to check the mass exodus of the northern children into their domain.
“For them, they don’t listen to radio and television. They don’t even know that COVID – 19 is in existence. Nothing concerns them.
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