Patients suffering from Coronavirus [Covid-19] have protested their treatment at the isolation centres in Gombe and Bauchi states.

In Kwadon, Gombe, the patients stormed the streets to protest their abandonment by the state government.

According to reports, the protesters blocked the federal road leading to the Dadinkowa-Biu Expressway. The patients protested against the government’s negligence, inadequate food and medical attention in the isolation centre.

They also reportedly demanded the transfer of a female patient from the centre because of the stench from her wound.

The Commissioner for Information and spokesperson of the state task force, Alhassan Ibrahim, confirmed the incident.

He said the task force would make life bearable for the patients.

“It is really unfortunate that there was disquiet at the Kwadon isolation centre. It was caused by the patients there. They predicated their grievances on three premises, one that they were not given drugs, or medication. It will interest all of us to know that all of them there are asymptomatic, meaning they don’t have symptoms,” he said in a The Punch Newspaper report.

“The second is that they were isolated at the centre and their families are not taken care of and I think they are going too far and thirdly that there is an inmate with an ailment that they are not comfortable sharing a bathroom with. The premises that their protest is predicated on are not really too reasonable.”

Meanwhile in Bauchi, the patients complained of starvation at the isolation centres.

The state government, which confirmed the development, said it was not deliberate. It said appropriate actions had been taken.

The Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Lawal Muazu, in a statement on Tuesday, said,

“The attention of Bauchi State Government has been drawn to delay in providing meals for coronavirus patients at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Bauchi. The government has since taken actions and addressed the issue immediately.”