Tori from PREMIUM TIMES, don yarn say the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, on Wednesday say im don authorise the use of chloroquine as a medication for the treatment of COVID-19.
The governor, yarn dis tori wen im dey give update on COVID-19 in the state.
Make Una read wetin im yarn
“Our medical team is using their own ingenuity to use chloroquine and Zithromax to treat the patients, even though in some places, they said it is against the protocol,”
“As the governor, I’m taking responsibility for that because I don’t want anyone to die.
“I have given you the directive that you must use something that I have used to get well, just as you have used for all other cases that got well.
“Rather than saying that something is harmful, we should not follow what the white people are saying by not taking anything and die.
“We are used to taking chloroquine in Nigeria. We are going to use them. We have taken responsibility and I have taken responsibility.
“Zithromax and chloroquine are not harmful to our body, our physiological system has adapted to it. If you are having a fever you take chloroquine.”
“Nobody is affected with any serious distress in Bauchi, even though now we are going to be tested with the 23 cases.”
“community participation in the enforcement of social distancing works out best for the government and people of Bauchi.”
“We have noticed that total lockdown is not a solution and I still maintain that community consciousness, communal efforts, and professionalism of our health workers in terms of contact searching and testing are key to curbing the spread of COVID-19.
“Yes, we don’t have a lockdown for now, but I still believe when the need arises, we will do it.”
“That’s why in just ten days, we are establishing our own laboratory here in Bauchi so that every day, we will be able to test at least 1000 people,” he said.
“We will do that perspective of what the federal government has done for us. And we must thank the Northeast Development Commission, who have given us support. And, if we have another opportunity, we will establish another testing center in Azare because that axis shares borders with the high-risk areas of Jigawa, Borno, and Kano.
“We must protect the Northern part of the country, while we have one here, we must have one there.”
“We have a 100-bed-capacity at the ATBU teaching hospital, we have 20 beds in Bauchi Specialists hospital, we have 120 beds in Bayara General hospital isolation center, we have (an) 80 bedded isolation center at the Federal Medical Center in Azare; through our collaboration with Zenith Bank, we have made available another 100-bed isolation center in Toro,”
