Lagos State House of Assembly has appealed to residents to bear a little more with the current hardship caused by lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Members of the joint House committee on health and information made the appeal on Tuesday while addressing correspondents after an oversight tour of COVID-19 facilities in the state.
Leader of the team Hon. Hakeem Sokunle, Chairman, Committee on health advice that it is necessary to strictly adhere to restriction order imposed by the government, so as to stem the spread of the virus.
Other members on the team are chairmen, committees on information and strategy, Hon. Tunde Braimoh, environment, Hon. Desmond Elliot and transportation, Hon. Temitope Adewale.
The committee visited the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Yaba, Onikan Mobolaji Johnson Arena Isolation Center, Eti Osa Isolation Centre at LANDMARK Victoria Island and the General Hospital Gbagada Isolation Centre.
The members acknowledged the standard facilities on ground at the centers and urgent response to the pandemic by the state government assisted by the Federal government.
It promised to do something immediately with the minor challenges of the frontline workers which includes inadequate call- room and insufficient Personal Protective Equipments (PPE).
The lawmakers assured that government was not living any stone unturned to mitigate the further spread of the virus but really needs the cooperation of the people.
Sokunle harps on the aptness of the government’s insistence on sit at home as the best way to curb the spread of the virus, weighing the grave consequences of getting infected on an individual.
“The best way to curb the spread is absolute lockdown, I understand it is not easy but sometimes we should be able to consider the effect of COVID, because if you witness the effect of the virus on human being it is very very bad.”
Braimoh also appealed to residents to persevere a little more, as the situation demands drastic actions being a sudden one for which preparation was not made earlier.
The lawmaker noted the disruptive manner by which the pandemic took on the world, citing the fact that the people needs to be encouraged by the efforts of well-meaning Nigerians, who went out of their ways to bring succour to vulnerable persons at this time of despair and fear.
“We want to beg our people to know that there is one problem on one side which bothers on welfare the other problem on the other side is the COVID-19 which has to do with survivorship, about life and death, if somebody is alive that is when he can think about welfare, once dead you care less and death is a supreme sacrifice, we want to appeal to our people not to die.
Braimoh appealed to residents to cooperate and appreciate the efforts of individuals, groups,organizations and even government who are trying in their little way to ameliorate the hardship occasioned by the lockdown by providing palliatives, that they should accept the palliatives and not destroy or throw them back at those who want to help.
The four facilities which are properly equipped and staffed has a total of about 500 bed space for Civic-19 patients.