Bashir Mohammed
The Kano Peace Committee, an independent committee established for the promotion of peace and peaceful co existence in Kano state, Wednesday expressed its deep grief and heartfelt compassion to the state government and the good people of the state over increasing cases of COVID-19.
In an open letter signed by the co-chairs of the committee, Professor Ibrahim Umar and Reverend John Namaza, sent to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a copy of which was made available to the Blueprint in Kano Wednesday, the committee said it was conscious of the challenges of the emerging situation of COVID-19.
The committee said despite the long assumed measures employed by the Kano state government to contain the situation, the state has been recording confirmed cases of COVID- 19 on a daily basis, an incidence turning the state to a bastion of coronavirus infection.
The committee registered its unalloyed solidarity to the Kano state government in the fight against the dreaded disease.
The committee counseled government not to relent in its efforts to contain the spread of the virus, by remaining resolute on measures aimed at containing the spread of the disease.
It also urged the state government to provide adequate working facilities to the frontline health workers, such as personal protective equipment and health insurance to motivate them in the supreme sacrifice they were making in saving the lives of the Kano residents.
The committee then appealed to the Kano state government to as a matter of urgency designate some public and private hospitals in the state to attend to other ailments aside of COVID- 19, as people find it difficult to access medical health care and other sicknesses of critical emergency such as hypertension, antenatal care, diabetes, malaria and typhoid.