Nigerian Health Worker PHOTO:Twitter
Says many health facilities being deserted
As scheme donates PPEs to Police
The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Prof Mohammed Sambo has lamented that many healthcare workers are becoming endangered by the Covid-19 pandemic while many health facilities across the country are being deserted.
Worried by the high number of frontline workers infected with the coronavirus disease, the NHIS has provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to the Nigeria Police to enable men of the force combat COVID-19 safely.
Presenting the items to the Inspector General of Police at the Police Clinic, yesterday in Abuja, the NHIS boss stressed the need to ensure the protection of Healthcare workers in all the facilities to ensure effective service delivery and also reduce the level of infections in the country.
Sambo observed that the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 (PTF) had asked the NHIS to support security agencies with…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
