COVID19 patients that were discharged in Niger state have shared their experience during their time at the state’s Isolation center.
The patients who were discharged on May 24, 2020 claimed that no drug was given to them throughout their stay at the isolation center.
The patients revealed that they were not treated or re-tested before their discharge despite testing positive for COVID-19 earlier.
One of the released patients, who was picked up from Shiroro local government area said in anonymity that he was waiting to be treated and administered drugs throughout the duration of his stay at the isolation center but was only served food.
He said: “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 said further that his mother and other relatives that were also picked up and quarantined together with him were also maltreated. He said that after they were discharged, they were not given transportation but were told to find their way.
He said: “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.”
