COVID-19 Patients Storm Streets Of Gombe, Protest Over ‘Poor Welfare’

Again, some coronavirus patients in Gombe have taken to the street to protest over “poor welfare”, blocking a major highway in the state.

Recall on Tuesday, May 5, some patients at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, and Kwadon Isolation Centre in Yamaltu Deba local government area of the state protested over the same reason.

Some of the patients at the isolation centres had reportedly mixed with some villagers who joined in the protest.

According to a report on TheCable, some of them fled the isolation centres while some returned at the end of the protest.

A resident, who craved anonymity said “After the protest of Tuesday, the government was very embarrassed so they paid more attention to those at Kwandon Isolation Centre, neglecting the ones at the hospital,” the resident said.

“They probably felt the officials at the hospital could calm the patients there. But when the ones at the teaching hospital heard that things were better at the other place, they felt government did not care about them because they did not go into the streets.

“So, they also demonstrated today, making the people to panic until security operatives succeeded in dispersing them.”

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A hospital source said some of the patients had fled to their homes.

Meanwhile, the presidential task force on COVID-19 vowed to look into the situation at Gombe

Currently, there are currently 109 COVID-19 patients in Gombe.