Ebola: Lagos donates N76m to First Consultants, survivors It was a sombre scene on Friday when Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, assisted by some members of the State Council, presented cheques worth N76 million to the management of First Consultants Hospital, Obalende, and 13 survivors and relations of victims of the Ebola Virus Disease. Idris said the event would have been handled by Governor Babatunde Fashola but for his engagement at a state function. The commissioner announced that government was not compensating, but rather supporting First Consultants Hospital with N50 million, towards helping the management recover some of the losses incurred during the period of containing the outbreak of the disease. Thirteen others, including survivors and relations of victims of the disease, were also supported with N2 million each to help cushion the effects of the EVD. At the event, Abibat Jatto, widow of the ECOWAS Protocol Officer Abdulkadir Jatto, who succumbed to the disease, broke down in tears after receiving her cheque alongside her two-month-old baby, Nana Hauwa, who was born after the death of her father. Abibat, who is presently undergoing her master’s programme in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, could not hold back tears when her daughter started crying when she got up to collect her cheque. Also present to receive his cheque was Bankole Cardoso, son of the late Stella Adadevoh, who refused to talk to the media. Idris noted that the monetary support was not meant to compensate the loss suffered by the hospital and families of the dead, “Rather, it is our own effort to the (survivors) and the loved ones that died that they are the heroes and heroines of this containment activity and that there is no need for them to be stigmatised, we should celebrate them.”
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 06:07:06 +0000
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