The governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said he has decided to give full insurance to frontline health workers and also increased their hazard allowance from 30,000 naira to 50,000 naira daily to encourage them to put in their best.
The governor made this known on Thursday night in Lokoja, Kogi state when officials of the National Center for Disease Control sent to ascertain the COVID-19 led by Dr Noah Andrew visited him.
According to him, the Kogi State Ministry of Health has deployed health personnel to all the 239 Wards of the State, 2 focal persons per ward, who constantly sensitise the people on the dangers of the virus, communicate news or even rumours of suspected cases to the incident committee or task force for investigation and also assist in contact tracing.
He said: “We have set up 3 modern Isolation/Containment Centres in the State having a combined capacity of 130-bed spaces. These facilities currently lie unused. It is our prayer and our determination that these isolation centres will remain vacant until the pandemic is over.
“We have provided emergency and toll-free numbers for the general public to call in and report suspected cases of Covid-19 at no cost whatsoever. We have also fielded many of such calls. All of them turned out to be false alarms upon investigation and did not meet the criteria from the NCDC for cases which should be sampled for testing.
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