The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that being the index Covid-19 case in the state, he infected four others.
Mr El Rufai said this while he was a guest speaker on The Platform, an annual event of the Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos, where he stated that the state government took steps to get personal protective equipment for health workers.
According to him, “Each and every case of COVID-19 we’ve had in the state was imported. I was the index case, fortunately, I would say, because it served to scare everyone in the state to come to the reality that COVID-19 is real; it’s not a joke.
“I got it in Abuja and I infected four other people. Happily, all of us are okay now. We are all back
to our normal lives. We didn’t want to expose any of our frontline workers to any risk, so we have a lot of PPEs for all our health workers.”
He stated that the state government had provided N5m in life insurance coverage for each health worker who dies of COVID-19 in the line of duty.
El-Rufai said, “We also insured their (health workers) lives to the tune of N5m. Anyone that dies in this process, his family will get N5m and we have additional disability insurance for those that get sick and cannot walk but are not dead.
“We are also giving a special allowance to all health workers, as well as extraordinary allowances for those on the frontlines. This is the broad strategy that we’ve adopted in Kaduna State and we are implementing it with all energy and focus.”
