A frontline doctor of Nigeria’s coronavirus response team has taken to Twitter account to slam colleagues she claims treat secretly patients infected with the virus.
Dr Bella Nifem alleged that some of her colleagues are being lured into the private homes of COVID-19 patients for bigger paychecks.
On Wednesday, 15 April 2020, the Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) announced the death of a doctor who contracted the virus after treating a COVID-19 patient privately and Dr. Bella decided to react to this news.
Dr Nifemi, who has been tending to COVID-19 patients at the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba, Lagos, advised her colleagues to stop risking their lives by managing patients away from the government’s approved medical facilities.
[bctt tweet=”Encourage your clients to come to isolation decenters or treatment when they approach you, don’t get carried away with the mouthwatering offer” username=”@drbellanifemi“]
“Dear fellow colleagues, how much is your life worth? Why are you suddenly carried away with the offer these big men are offering you to come home and treat them for COVID-19 because they don’t want the public to know?
“A doctor who is a known asthmatic patient died because he was attending to a confirmed COVID-19 positive patient as a private client at home. Another one is on admission…the client he was attending to as a private practice died this morning.
“Encourage your clients to come to isolation decenters or treatment when they approach you, don’t get carried away with the mouthwatering offer. We are fully equipped with PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and we have the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for COVID-19 at our isolation centres. Don’t sabotage the effort of our dearest governor in Lagos as we #FlattenTheCurve to beat #CoranaVirusInNigeria,” she writes on her Twitter handle.
Dear fellow Colleagues,
How much is your life worth? Why are you suddenly carried away with the offer these big men are offering you to come home and treat them for #COVID19 because they don’t want the public to know. 1/4— Dr Nifemi (@drbellanifemi) April 15, 2020
A doctor who is a known asthmatic patient died because he was attending to a confirmed #COVID19 positive patient as a private client at home. Another one is on admission, his client he was attending to as a private practice died this morning 2/4
— Dr Nifemi (@drbellanifemi) April 15, 2020
Encourage your clients to come to isolation centers for treatment when they approach you, don’t get carried away with the mouth watery offer, we are fully equipped with PPEs and we have the SOP for #COVID19 at our isolation centers 3/4
— Dr Nifemi (@drbellanifemi) April 15, 2020
Don’t sabotage the effort of our dearest Governor in Lagos State as we #FlattenTheCurve to beat #CoranaVirusInNigeria 4/4
— Dr Nifemi (@drbellanifemi) April 15, 2020
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