While governments must take the lead in providing qualitative and affordable healthcare for the citizenry, it does not have sufficient resources to carry this burden alone.
It certainly did not require a futurologist to predict that Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 control would not be able to sustain for long its earlier directive barring private hospitals from treating infected patients. The PTF meant well.
Yet, the country’s coronavirus crisis continued to flare daily. On May 4, President Muhammadu Buhari eased the lockdown he had earlier imposed on Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory , Abuja, and emplaced, instead, an 8pm to 6am curfew. Consequently faced with shrinking bed spaces at treatment isolation centres and the growing strain on the public health infrastructure, the PTF announced that it has accredited some private hospitals in Lagos, the epicenter of the crisis, and other parts of the country, to treat COVID-19 patients.
It is important that these requirements be scrupulously monitored and enforced for compliance so that this commendable proactive step taken to solve a problem does not itself become a source of compounding the situation, leading to increased infections. The private sector must be facilitated and strengthened to offer complementary care.
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