launches female only 100-bed capacity facility

By Bashir Bello

KANO – Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has on Thursday stressed the need for health care staff and patient-friendly isolation centre in the state to avert agitation experienced in some isolation centres in the country.

Ganduje made this known while launching the Female only 100 bed capacity Daula Isolation Centre in Nassarawa local government, Kano.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, the Governor while calling on the attention of the staff warned that “We don’t want to hear any complaints from any patient here, please. You need to understand the psychology of your patients. Provide them with the necessary items they may seek.

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“As you may be aware that, there are complaints from some Isolation Centres in some states, it is therefore absolutely necessary to find a solution to such agitations.

“Contact your patients from time to time and tell them the situation they are at the moment. Tell them what is expected of them and what they should expect. I think that can help in forming a good patient-health worker relationship.

“As a place where patients are idle, with the feeling of inconveniences, because they are not with their families and/or parents, so they need to be engaged so that they can have hope. That it is just a matter of time that they would be discharged.

“They should be aware of the procedures. That if they are tested negative for the first time, then they should know that there is hope. And when they are tested negative for the second time, then they are due for discharge.

“When there was no such explanation, patients would not know when next to a sample would be taken, and when next the result of the samples would be announced to them.

“From there you begin to see a lot of agitations. We want a situation of cooperation and we want a situation of understanding.

“On our part, we assure our public that we are really prepared to bring this pandemic down, by the Special Will of Allah. And I believe we will soon start observing that. Especially when we are having negative negative negative. It shows we are fighting the positive aspect of it,” the student reads.

Meanwhile, the female-only Daula Isolation Centre is a 100-bed capacity facility and it is for mild-moderate cases.

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