COVID-19: Bauchi gives N12.7m to frontline health workers

By : Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi

Date: 24 May 2020 4:06am WAT

Patients infected with the novel COVID-19 coronavirus get into an ambulance of the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (IGSS) to be transferred to other building after the IGSS' Hospital General de Enfermedades (General Hospital for Diseases) overcrowded with COVID-19 patients, in Guatemala City on May 23, 2020. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP)

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has approved N12.7 million for frontline health workers who are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed made this known in his office in a chat with newsmen.

Mohammed said the money was released as a sign of motivation, saying that it was the state government’s recognition of the impact made by health workers who have played vital roles in waging war against the dreaded disease.

He added that out of the 27 frontline health workers that contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty, 24 of them have tested negative and had been discharged.