Amidst the growing fears over likely spread of the dreaded Corona Virus scourge in the country, resident doctors have asked the government to implemented Group LIfe Assurance Policy for health workers.
They accused the government of failing to implement the policy which they noted, was a contract of insurance designed to provide for the payment of capital sum to the dependents of an employee who dies while in service.
Addressing the media, yesterday, in Abuja, the doctors through their union, the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, NARD, lamented that doctors, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers, who they noted, were sacrificing their health and time to treat and protect Nigerians, were not only ill-equipped but also economically dampened by government’s lack of will to prioritize their well-being.
Speaking through their president, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, the resident doctor flayed what they called, “ the poor state of welfare for healthcare workers in the face of threatening hazardous and fatal diseases outbreaks such as Lassa fever and the coronavirus otherwise known as COVID-19, in the country.
“With the recent outbreaks in the country one would have thought that protecting the healthcare workers’ welfare and most importantly their well-being would be given utmost attention.