We were not given drugs, just food - Discharged COVID-19 patients in Nigeria State

Discharged COVID-19 patients in Niger State have said that they were only given food and no drug all through their stay at the isolation center in the state.

One of the patients who was picked up in Zumba in Shiroro local government stated that the only thing given to him throughout his stay was food, no drug.

He told The Nation, “I expected that I will undergo some treatment, but apart from food, nothing was given to me in the form of treatment. They did not give me a single drug. They only give us food every day that is all. No single drug, not even paracetamol was given to me throughout the 14 days".

He stated that his mother and relatives who were also picked up were also treated shabbily. He added that that they were not given any transportation fair and were told to find their way after they got discharged.

“They just came and asked us to go. They did not tell us how we would move neither did they consider that we may not have any money to transport us home. We trekked from the isolation centre at the back of the police secondary school to the main road. 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 said.