20 Doctors contract COVID-19 in Kwara

Not less than 20 doctors in Kwara State have been infected with COVID-19 in the past three weeks.

President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Badmus Habeeb, announced this on Wednesday.

He lamented that members of the association are battling with the pandemic “based on the available resources”.

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“About 20 of our members have become infected in the last two to three weeks.

“I must reiterate that this is not the best of times for us, our families and the affected patients,” he said.

Habeeb, however, noted that the discovery of vaccines has brought hope and relief for everyone.

But he lamented that there is a poor resource setting in the country, where the necessities to make the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines easy and possible, are not readily available.

“So, it seems we may never be able to get the vaccine anytime soon,” he said.

The UITH-ARD President said the vaccines have so far proven to be effective and therefore, urged Nigerians to get vaccinated when it arrives while adhering strictly to other COVID-19 guidelines.

“The public should adhere strictly to the laid down guidelines on the prevention of COVID-19 by NCDC,” he warned.