What El-Rufai says About Health Workers Who Treated Him

Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed his gratitude to the frontline health workers who stood and treated him when he contracted the virus of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said before he was recovered last Wednesday, that four of the health workers were infected with the virus through him, adding that the four health workers whose names were not mentioned have recovered also.
El-Rufai discussed this on the Covenant Nation’s 24th edition of The Platform hosted by Pastor Oyemade.

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He moved further to say that COVID-19 is real and urged everyone to desist from social gathering as health experts had stated
He said: “I was the first case, fortunately, I’d say, because it served to scare everyone about the reality that COVID is real, it’s not a joke.
“I was the first case, I got it in Abuja and I infected four other people, all of us are OK now, we are all back to our normal lives.”
The state currently has 35 cases, six recoveries, and one death.
“We took extraordinary steps to get PPEs for our health workers; we didn’t want to expose any of our frontline workers. We also insured their lives to the tune of N5 million, anyone that dies in this process, his family will get N5 million,” he said.

“We have additional disability insurance for those that get sick and cannot work but are not dead. We are also giving special allowances to all health workers, as well as extraordinary allowances to those on the frontline.

“This is an opportunity to strengthen our public health infrastructure. We are in the process of building a permanent infectious disease hospital. The one that we have is just 16 beds.

“We are building a 139-bed infectious disease hospital to be completed in the next eight weeks. We are building infectious wards in each of our general hospitals in each of the 23 local governments.

“This will be 20 to 30 beds in each local government. We realized from Wuhan that the way to deal with this is to trace, test, treat.”
He urged the people of the state to “do everything to avoid exposure and prevent the spread of this disease in our towns and villages. We must now make the sacrifices of enhanced domestic hygiene, regular hand-washing with soap, staying at home, and avoiding crowds to defeat this disease.”