Lockdown: Lagos Assembly Begs Residents To Stay At Home

The Assembly during a visit by joint committee of the House on Health and Information to four Coronavirus treatment and Isolation centres, in the state for a sight seeing of the facilities and to ascertain how adequate the health care services urged Lagosians to bear a little more the hardship that trailed the COVID-19 battle, stating that it is necessary to strictly adhere to restriction order imposed by the government, so as to stem the spread of the virus in no distant time.

The Assembly noted that all over the globe the economy is nose-diving and people need now more than ever to be their brother’s keeper by extending a helping hand to the vulnerable.

The committee visited the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, Isolation Centre at Onikan Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Eti Osa Isolation Centre at Landmark Victoria Island and the Cardiac and Renal Centre General Hospital Gbagada, which has also been drafted for prompt medical care as the virus bites harder in the State, given the circulated statistics by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.

In their observation during the tour around the facilities, the committee noticed a proactive response to the pandemic as basic equipment were afforded.

Aside from slight inadequacies sighted at the IDH with respect to provision of Personal Protective Equipments, PPE, for healthcare givers; the Nurses and hygienists as well as testing kits, which they promise to make recommendations for needed attention.

According to the team led by Mr. Hakeem Sokunle the chairman House Committee on Health Services and accompanied by Hon. Tunde Braimoh the Chairman House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, government is living no stone unturned to mitigate the further spread of the virus but really needs the cooperation of the people.

Also part of the team were Mr Temitope Adewale Chairman House Committee on Transportation and Mr. Desmond Elliott Chairman House Committee on Environment.

Sokunle harps on the aptness of the government’s insistence on sit at home order as the best way to curb the spread of the virus, weighing the grave consequences of getting infected on an individual.

The lawmaker commended the Lagos State Governor Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the lockdown, noting that it will if strictly adhered to aid quick detection and immediate medical attention