Rivers: Seven health workers test positive for COVID-19
By MIKE ODIEGWU, Port Harcourt
The Association of Resident Doctors has lamented the poor working condition in Rivers State, disclosing that seven of its members tested positive for the coronavirus pandemic.
The resident doctors urged Governor Nyesom Wike to immediately live up to his promise of paying hazard allowances to frontline workers fighting COVID-19 in the state.
The President of the association in the Rivers State Teaching Hospital, Dr. Josephine Sokolo, who spoke in Port Harcourt, bemoaned the plight of healthcare workers in the state.
Sokolo, while narrating the challenges of the workers, said seven medical practitioners contracted the virus in the state, but that some them had treated already.
She urged Wike to toe the path of the Federal Government by increasing the hazard allowance, which stands at N5,000 and N2,500 for doctors and nurses respectively, to 50 per cent of the basic salary of every healthcare worker. (The Nation)
