COVID-19: Doctors Raise Alarm Over Increased Infection Among Health Workers

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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have lamented the increasing rate of exposure, infection, and fatality to COVID-19 among health workers especially its members nationwide.

National President of the association, Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, made this known in Owerri at the end of NARD’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting and scientific conference.

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As a result of the increased exposure to the virus, Uyilawa said the doctors are therefore demanding a upward review of their hazard allowance and speedy implementation of the life insurance scheme.

“NEC demands that the current hazard allowance be upwardly reviewed within the next months in order not to encourage our members to continue to work at this critical moment of an increasing number of infection and mortality due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and to maintain industrial harmony in the health sector.

“The NEC resolves that the life insurance scheme for all health workers be speedily implemented and all health workers who have been infected or died as a result of COVID-19 or any other disease infection in the country be compensated,” the NARD President said.