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Some coronavirus patients in Gombe State have taken to the street to protest over poor welfare provision in the state.
While health officials were able to restore calm to patients at the hospital, those at the isolation centre were so wild to tame. Possibly mixed with villagers, the patients blocked a major highway in the state to ensure their grievances were clearly sent out to authorities in the state.
Some of the patients eventually fled the isolation centre reportedly, while others returned at the end of the protest.
A resident, who craved anonymity, told The Cable on Friday that the action of the government triggered the fresh protest.
“After the protest of Tuesday, the government was very embarrassed so they paid more attention to those at Kwandon Isolation Centre, neglecting the ones at the hospital,” the resident said.
“They probably felt the officials at the hospital could calm the patients there. But when the ones at the teaching hospital heard that things were better at the other place, they felt government did not care about them because they did not go into the streets.
“So, they also demonstrated today, making the people to panic until security operatives succeeded in dispersing them.”
