Kano State on Monday registered 23 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the state ministry of health has said in a late evening tweet.
The state now has 59 officially recorded cases in all as of the time this report was filed.
Meanwhile, worried by the rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases coming out Kano, a delegation from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) led by the Director General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, arrived the state capital Monday evening to commence a monitoring process of the way the state has so far handled the spreading COVID-19 cases in the state.
A source at NCDC confided in Judicial Sketch that there have been complaints going on within the medical community in the state that political considerations have been interfering with professional approaches to the management of the pandemic, and as experts in the field of epidemiology get frustrated, novices have taken over.
For instance, strategic meetings of the state Task Force on COVID-19 as well as Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) were not held unless the daughter of the state governor, Amina Umar Ganduje is present, and if she was late, meetings have to be postponed till she arrived.
Amina is a public health physician with Masters in public health (in Field Epidemiology) in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria while she was doing her residency training in Community Medicine in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano 2018.
NCDC was particularly concerned that professionals in the field of epidemiology have been sidelined while Amina rode over the activities of the committees saddled with the management of a pandemic that threatens the lives of over ten million people in Kano State.
Our source said NCDC does not believe in an effort that lacks think-tank, and Kano State has provided a classical example of haphazard approach.
“COVID-19 Rapid Respond Team is not functional. All the key people at the various health institutions in the state were not utilized. Their resources were not tapped into. Management of crises of this nature does not consider social and economic status. It is the knowledge and capability that are supposed to be considered always”, he explained.
“NCDC will now be the eyes of the FG in Kano. There is no way meetings could be skipped now because there has to be reports to the headquarters. Kano has become problematic. NCDC intends to be part of every activity, and would have its own random confirmation procedure that would not allowed to get compromised”, he said further.
Another source in the Task Force told our reporter that “the governor’s daughter has gone into isolation but she still reins supreme, overriding the opinions of even the professors. The health commissioner has to run every decision through her before any final stance could be taken. In short, she is the de-facto health commissioner”, he said.
In the same vein, the chief press secretary to the state governor, Mr Abba Anwar has said in a statement he issued Monday

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It's well

Politics don enter...Covic is now Family Business...They think it's election result again..That's how they will be hiding people upandan..Even people when know say them get am go still dey live their normal lives.....Ambassador came and was distributing Coro like palliatives......Kanawa I hail

everything about Kano is politics.
Ganduje is still playing politics with covid19

Negative sense that kano is applying is ver bad. The state with the highest number of destitutes always want all the countrys assets to be channeled to them clandestinely without bringing any thing to the table

Chief Press Secretary...... get ready to lose your job oo
The governor and daughter should remember that the disease doesn't look at status..... let them ask Kyari......
This is what is crumbling our governance.... imagine!!

Kano! One of the worst state government in Nigeria.

I knew that Ganduge deliberately refused to close the border because of the money he is expecting to collect from federal government and share with his daughter.
I weak for Nigerian leaders.

Nepotism at its peak.

Of all the health professionals in Kano, it is the governors daughter that is best suited to manage COVID-19 in Kano?

No problem, governor may think the pandemic is another opportunity to siphon money.

Covid-19 doesn't discriminate, as you lay your bed; so you lie on it.

I am thinking those that said that Kano state victim will be much...I now see the credence to that assertion

An epidemic that has killed over 160,000 and infected over 2.5m, that is what you give a resident doctor to handle, in a kano population of over 15m

Ganduje should understand that this does not affect just kano, this affects the whole world.

One day, evil doers will eventually destroy themselves beyond redemption because of untamed greed and foolishness.
I just pity the ignorant masses

Wetin concern me, if them like make them do the way dey like na them and will still be them but my own be say make them they up there and not come down East

dirtydiva:
Wetin concern me, if them like make them do the way dey like na them and will still be them but my own be say make them they up there and not come down East

One states incompetence could affect the whole world...

That ugly monster of a governor should continue politicising the situation until he kills everyone in his state.

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dimejiamuda:

For instance, strategic meetings of the state Task Force on COVID-19 as well as Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) were not held unless the daughter of the state governor, Amina Umar Ganduje is present, and if she was late, meetings have to be postponed till she arrived.
Amina is a public health physician with Masters in public health (in Field Epidemiology) in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria while she was doing her residency training in Community Medicine in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano 2018.
NCDC was particularly concerned that professionals in the field of epidemiology have been sidelined while Amina rode over the activities of the committees saddled with the management of a pandemic that threatens the lives of over ten million people in Kano State.

Another source in the Task Force told our reporter that “the governor’s daughter has gone into isolation but she still reins supreme, overriding the opinions of even the professors.

The health commissioner has to run every decision through her before any final stance could be taken. In short, she is the de-facto health commissioner”, he said.

mumu people

Hhansome:
Kano! One of the worst state government in Nigeria.

Bello El'rufai would've accused your mother and even threaten to rape her, if he was here to read this.....


Egungun..... Be kiafullu....