18 Coronavirus patients have reportedly refused to undergo treatment for the disease in Gombe state. Idris Mohammed, chairman of the state’s task force on COVID-19 Mohammed said;
“We have a total of 30 people yet to be evacuated in the
“Two others were traced to Kano State and we notified the
“Out of 20 people remaining, they are the ones we are
This is coming after some Coronavirus patients who
disclosed this on Monday May 25. He said only 12 people could be
accounted for out of the 30 patients, as 18 patients are seeking
treatment outside the isolation centres.
state, out of the 30, five are Adamawa indigenes; we collected their
samples and we gave them our epid numbers and they have since gone back
to Adamawa State. But because of the epid numbers, they remain our cases
on paper but in reality they are in Adamawa State.
state epidemiologist and they have been placed in isolation; one other
to Ogun, the state epidemiologist was called and another one was traced
to Nasarawa State, we called the state epidemiologist and the last one
to Borno state and he has been evacuated by the state.
having some challenges evacuating but we are making efforts. As of
Sunday, we evacuated two. The good thing is that as most of them are
trying not to come, so they are in self isolation, they don’t come out
in the open but the traditional rulers and political leaders where they
reside are working with the task force to ensure they are evacuated,
treated and discharged lawfully.”
complained of ill-treatment staged a protest at the Federal Teaching
Hospital in the state. Some equipments at the hospital was destroyed
during the protest.
18 Coronavirus patients refuse to undergo treatment in Gombe state
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