The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, said the nation has lost count of people with coronavirus [COVID-19] who had gone into hiding and seeking alternative treatment instead of approaching the government.
Ehanire said that the country would be in a difficult position if this continues.
“People should come out and seek treatment, not to hide. The ones that we worry most about are the people who hide and look for alternative treatment. They are lost to our counting,” The Punch Newspaper quoted him as saying.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, on Thursday announced that the task force coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, lost his father, Alhaji Aliyu Daneji, on Wednesday.
Daneji, who was a permanent secretary in the Kano State Ministry of Finance from 1972 to 1975, died at the age of 95.
Also a retired director with the defunct Bank of the North, Rufai Abdulmalik, died on Thursday morning.
A family source said that Abdulmalik died at a federal health facility in the city.
A cousin of the late retired banker, Tiijjani Aliyu, who confirmed the death said,
”I have just received the sad news and I’m heading to the hospital.”
There were reports that no fewer than 100 people died in the state within three days. Those who died included professors and Alhaji Uba Adamu, the father of the Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University.
