Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire
Nigerians have been appealed to donate their buildings as isolation centres.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire made the appeal on
Thursday at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on
COVID-19 in Abuja.
He said as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control aimed to test two
million people in the next three months more buildings would be needed
as isolation centres.
The minister stated, “I have appealed to citizens to make their
property available temporarily for this purpose. I am sure that after
that, there are many property owners who will come up and donate to
state governments for a period of time to be used for this function.
“We are not out of space now but we are making the appeal ahead of time so that we have these facilities ready.”
Ehanire said that he was aware that the hazard allowance of health
workers in the frontline of COVID-19 fight was being negotiated, but
said that it did not include that of environmental health personnel.
Ehanire stated also that test capacity of the 15 laboratories in
Nigeria had reached 2500. He, therefore, called on Nigerians to take
advantage of the facilities.