VIDEO: COVID-19 patients protest in Niger state, threaten to abscond over poor treatment
COVID-19 patients in Niger state on Wednesday, May 6th staged a protest in their Isolation centre over what they termed poor welfare and treatment meted at them.
They requested to be allowed to go back to their homes instead of being left to “die of hunger” at the isolation facility.
This comes after COVID19 patients in Gombe state also staged their own protest.
Meanwhile one of the patients at the Niger state Isolation centre has absconded from the Isolation centre.
This was disclosed on the state government’s Twitter handle.
Recall that no less than 155 persons have died in Gashua and Potiskum areas of Yobe State over the last six days after exhibiting symptoms related with Coronavirus.
The deaths, which have caused panic among residents of the state, is similar to the situation experienced in Kano recently where people in large numbers died consistently for several days to what had now been confirmed by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to be the virus.
