DWNEBOLAUPDATE: The risk of infection, even with the highest deployment of caution, is real. Medical care for Ebola patients requires round-the-clock attention and monitoring and available facts have shown that health workers and family members of patients have a high risk of infection. This much is known to the workers at the IDH. Aside from a comprehensive health care package and a monthly salary, as our correspondent gathered, while doctors earn N100,000 daily for working at the unit, nurses and attendants are daily paid N70,000 and N30,000 hazard allowance respectively. In a country where the minimum monthly wage is N18,000, the prospect of earning almost double the minimum monthly wage almost on a daily basis appears to have crushed the associated risk. While the state government is still keeping the expenses it had incurred so far to its chest, the Federal Government announced a N200 million fund to augment its resources in the management the EVD. The sum, according to a statement by the Special Adviser to the Minister for Health on Media and Communications, Mr. Dan Nwomeh, is separate from the N1.9billion released to the Ministry of Health. The private sector has also not been watching from the sidelines. The Aliko Dangote Foundation aided with a donation of N152m to sponsor the Ebola Emergency Operation Centre in Lagos while Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited also donated an ambulance to the centre.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:28:05 +0000
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