Minister of Health, Osagie
Ehanire, say COVID-19 patients, who spent a long period at isolation centres
were at the risk of depression.
Ehanire, who stated
this in Abuja at the press conference of the Presidential Task Force on
COVID-19, said government planned to deploy psychologists in isolation centres
to take care of such patients.
At the press
conference, the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said the task
force was reluctant to adopt home treatment it once proposed because of
conditions under which Nigerians live.
He also asked
professional groups and faith-based organisations, including churches and
mosques, to submit guidelines for reopening to the NCDC to review and advise.
The health minister
also said the Federal Government had intervened in the sit-at-home protest embarked upon on
Wednesday by the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association,
following harassments by the police, who were enforcing a nationwide curfew imposed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The health minister
said the Federal Government’s team sent to Cross River State on Monday had
returned and its report stated that there was no confirmed case yet in the
state.
Besides Cross River
State, Kogi State has not recorded any COVID-19 case, but the NCDC officials,
who were sent to the North-Central state went back to Abuja without
accomplishing their mission following the insistence of the state government
that they must be in isolation for 14 days.
On Thursday, the
minister noted that an analysis of the 200 COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in
the country revealed a 70-30 per cent ratio for males and females.
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