Patients discharged claimed no drug administered to them in the form of treatment.
They were only given meals during their stay at the isolation centre.
Niger has 26 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 18 patients on admission.
Discharged COVID19 patients in Niger state have spoken about their time at the state’s Isolation center.
In an interview with The Nation, the patients discharged as we speak, May 24, claimed that every one through their stay at the isolation center, no drug administered to them in the form of treatment.
The patients acknowledged that even if they tested positive for COVID-19, they were neither treated nor re-tested before being discharged.
One of the discharged patients, picked up from Zumba in Shiroro local government area. Stated he was anticipating to be treated and given medication all through his stay at the isolation center however was only given meals.
“I expected that I will undergo some treatment, but apart from food, nothing was given to me in the form of treatment. They didn’t give me a single drug. They solely give us meals every single day that’s all.
No single drug, not even paracetamol was given to me throughout the 14 days,” the patient who spoke on condition of anonymity stated.
He further alleged his mother and other relations, who were also picked up and quarantined with him, were also treated shabbily.
He acknowledged that after their discharge, they weren’t provided with transportation and told to find their way. “They just came and asked us to go. They didn’t inform us how we would move neither did they contemplate that we may not have any cash to move us home.
We trekked from the isolation centre behind the police secondary school to the main highway. From there, we trekked to Dutsen Kuran Gwari before someone assisted us to Sabon Gari junction.
It was at Sabon Gari {that a} commercial vehicle carried us to Zumba before we borrowed money from our people to pay the driver” he stated.
Niger has 26 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 18 patients on admission. 5 have been discharged and one dead. The state government is yet to react to this allegation.
