'I expected that I will undergo some treatment, but apart from food, nothing was given to me in the form of treatment. They did not give me a single drug.'
COVID-19 patients being discharged from the Minna Isolation centre, has disclosed that they were not adequately treated and tested to prove if they were negative, before they were discharged.
The state Taskforce on COVID-19 however claimed that the isolation centre is adequate to accommodate a large number of patients. However, yesterday, some of the patients who spoke to reporters after they were discharged claimed that the isolation centre is overcrowded and some of them were made to sleep on the floor.
One of the discharged patients who was picked up from Zumba in Shiroro local government said that he was tested positive and quarantined at the isolation centre and that he was expecting to be treated and given drugs throughout his stay at the isolation centre but none was administered to him. He further disclosed that his mother and other relations who were also picked up and quarantined with him were also treated shabbily.
“We trekked from the isolation centre at the back of the police secondary school to the main road. From there, we trekked to Dutsen Kuran Gwari before someone assisted us to Sabon Gari junction.
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