The federal government has made
overtures to owners of hotels and other recreational facilities for bed
spaces, urging them to show solidarity with efforts at tackling the
pandemic outbreak.
It said the cooperation of the hotel
owners are needed to allow government to make use of their facilities as
isolation centres to manage the increasing cases of the virus.
Speaking at the daily press briefing by
the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja Thursday, the Minister
of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, also said there was an immediate need for
owners of hotels to make their facilities available for temporary use
in emergency situations.
“Active community transmission and
scale-up of case finding are expressed in increasing numbers of
confirmed persons. As stated yesterday, bed spaces and isolation centres
at state level need to match the increase and necessitate an appeal to
all citizens, especially property and hotel owners, to recognise the
imminent needs and the social responsibility of working with state
governments to make facilities available for temporary use in emergency
situations,” he stated.
According to him, everything should not
be left to government alone as “we must all take collective ownership of
the health and wellbeing of our citizens.”
On complaints that patients were being
turned back by some hospitals for fear of being infected, Ehanire
cautioned healthcare institutions and workers against such an act.
He said they should not be dismissing
patients that come for normal treatment rather their duty should be to
apply necessary guidelines in handling their treatment.
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