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Lack of incentive and other challenges facing medical personnel in Kano State may jeopardise stakeholders’ efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state.
Already medical personnel are abandoning the isolation centres set up by the state government.
Executive secretary, Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Tijani Hussain, narrated how a health worker abandoned the isolation facility due to poor allowance.
“We have had situation where a medical personal left the facility frustrated. Not because he was not interest or ready to do the work, but he and many other personnel at the frontline are worried about their lives and that of their immediate families,” he said.
Dr. Tijani, while presenting the update on the fight against COVID-19 in Kano, advocated life insurance for medical personnel handling COVID-19 cases.
According to him, those offering their expertise deserve better working conditions and improved incentive.
Last week, four members of the taskforce, which he is a member, including the co-chairman, tested positive for the deadly virus, putting the total cases in Kano to 36.
