The primary health centres in the rural areas designed to provide quality health care to the rural populace are in dearth of health facilities and medical equipment due to poor funding and neglect by the government.
On the other hand, the tertiary health care centres in the urban areas designed to provide health care to the urban populace are not left out. Most of the facilities in these hospitals are obsolete and dysfunctional and could not contend with modern medicine. The poor states of these facilities are due to inadequate funding by the government.
Incidentally, the coronavirus is non-selective, non-discriminative pandemic that knows no bounds and there is no safe haven globally. Therefore, infected nations have no choice but to galvanised huge resources to equip their health centres to combat the disease. Ironically, infected persons, irrespective or status, wealth and influence are ‘flown’ to secluded medical facilities – the isolation centre, for medical attention and treatment.
However, it is heartwarming that the present government has up their morale with hazard allowance and life insurance packages. Thanks to COVID-19 pandemic. Undoubtedly, the coronavirus pandemic has really challenged and compelled the government at all levels to come to terms with the realities of the state of medical centres in the country.