Falana To Buhari: Fix Hospitals As Tribute To Kyari

By Augustine Adah

As mark of honour for late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari and other victims of COVID-19, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, (SAN) has urged governments at all levels to fix health institutions in the country.

Falana who made the call in a statement, blamed the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria to lack of coordination between federal and state governments in the efforts to fight the pandemic in Nigeria.

He said, “From the foregoing, it is indisputable that there is an obvious lack of a coherent COVID-19 policy. This puts to question dangerously the seriousness of the Federal Government in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

“No doubt, President Buhari has paid glowing tribute to the late Mr Abba Kyari. But the greatest tribute that can be paid to the deceased and the other 18 citizens that have lost their precious lives on account of complications arising from COVID-19 is for the Federal, state and local governments to embark on fixing and equipping public hospitals without any further delay.

“Just last week, the British Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, who was discharged from a public hospital in London after his treatment for COVID-19, was full of adulation for the National Health Service of his country. That should be a sober lesson for members of the ruling class in Nigeria, who usually spend public funds on medical treatment in foreign medical centres.”

The burial of Kyari on Saturday attracted a lot of people including top government officials.

But Falana described the manner the burial was handled  as contrary to social distancing as directed  by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’, (NCDC).

He also criticized the decision to treat Kyari until his death on Friday in a private hospital in Lagos in defiance to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire’s statement that no private hospital had been granted permission to treat the disease.

He stated, “While the NCDC has directed anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 to report for treatment in isolation centres for treatment and monitoring former Chief of Staff to the President, the late Mr Abba Kyari was allowed to be treated in a cardiological centre, a private hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

“Since then, some influential people who tested positive to COVID-19 are said to have insisted on treatment in private hospitals without official authorisation.”

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