Tanko Sununu, the Chairman, House of representative’s committee on health services alongside JOHESU officials in Abuja.The National Assembly is reviewing plans to get death benefits for the families of healthcare workers who die from COVID-19 in the line of duty, a lawmaker has said.
Health workers have watched several of their colleagues die while treating people suffering from COVID-19, a rare strain of coronavirus that has killed more than half a million people globally. The government had promised frontline health workers life insurance but this promise has not been kept, according to the president of theDoctors in Lagos, Nigeria’s coronavirus epicentre, are currently on strike over unpaid wages.
During Thursday’s courtesy visit, the lawmaker explained the compensation plans of the National Assembly for the families of deceased health workers.