Covid-19: Gombe State Governor commissions isolation centre
Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has said that
the health of the people cannot be
equated to any amount spent to ensure their wellbeing.
Yahaya stated this while commissioning Covid-19 isolation
and treatment centres set up by his administration.
Answering questions from newsmen on efforts so far put in
place by his administration to address the challenges of the novel
Coronavirus, said his government is
willing to spend more to contain the pandemic as well as reposition the health sector
for the benefit of the people of the State.
The Governor said the essence of putting up the isolation
and treatment facilities is to
prepare the state against the outbreak
of the novel Coronavirus and to save lives in case of any eventuality.
Governor Yahaya disclosed that while the state awaits the
delivery of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, his administration is
engaging the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and World Health
Organisation (WHO) to get necessary accreditation to establish a molecular
laboratory in the state that could serve as a test centre for as many viruses
as possible.
He said the decision to close schools and social centres in
the State was to promote social distancing which has so far been proven as an
antidote to the spread of the virus.
While answering questions on the youths recently apprehended
by the rapid response team of the state taskforce on the restriction of inter
state movement for coming into the State from Lagos, Governor Inuwa Yahaya said
the arrest of the youths for quarantining was the proper procedure to check the
possible spread of the Coronavirus, especially given the fact that the youths
were coming from Lagos which is the
epicenter of covid-19 in Nigeria.
The Governor thanked traditional and religious leaders for
their efforts in enlightening their subjects on the Coronavirus pandemic,
assuring the people that the State is ready for any eventuality.
The Chairman of the state Taskforce on covid-19, Professor
Idris Mohammed described the facilities provided as state of the art and some
of the best one can find for the management of covid-19 cases.
The facilities unveiled by the Governor included a 150- bed
capacity isolation centre at Kwadon infectious diseases hospital, for the
management of mild to
moderate cases, a fully equipped 50- bed capacity
facility at the Federal Teaching Hospital and a 12- bed capacity intensive care
unit ( ICU) fully equipped for the management of severe cases, including
mechanical ventilators, oxygen concentrations, cardiac respiratory monitors and
other needed facilities.
Ismaila Uba Misilli,
Senior Special Assistant
( Media and Publicity)
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