By: News Desk
A Senegalese man who died at the Kanifing General Hospital earlier Saturday morning is the Gambia’s second death of coronavirus, while staff of the emergency unite that attended to him are all quarantined.
Sources said, the Senegalese was brought to the Kanifing general hospital late Friday night with a complained of illness, but when medical staff at the hospital emergency unit were making efforts to treat him, he died.
Sources revealed that after the passing out of the Senegalese, his sample was taken for coronavirus test and he was tested positive of the deadly Covid-19 and his body was removed by staff.
“All the staffs on duty at the emergency unit that night were all quarantined Saturday morning and the hospital was also spray. The emergency unit was also shutdown for work on Saturday and Sunday. All our colleagues are currently quarantine and we are worried with the poor protective measure from government for health workers,” official sources who beg to remain anonymous told The Voice.
The sources further revealed that the government have made only one payment GMD 5,000 to frontline health workers since the coronavirus hit the country.
“Our health workers are at risk of coronavirus, government need to take urgent action to take protective measure for health workers. If action is not taken to address the concern of health workers, we are expecting what happened to French health workers to happen to Gambians.
“You can see that that lack up care for health workers in the fight against the covid 19 , affect a country, example is next door Guinea Bissau which over 90 of the country health are affected with coronavirus,” sources told The Voice.
Meanwhile, the Gambia’s healthy ministry confirmed the country’s second coronavirus related death on Saturday.