The Bauchi state government has revealed that it spends ₦4,500 on a daily basis to feed patients in the state’s isolation centres.

Rilwanu Mohammed, executive chairman of the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency (PHCDA), in an interview with NAN.

Mohammed revealed that Bala Mohammad, governor of the state, approved the amount to ensure that COVID-19 patients in the state were well fed.

Mohammed, who is the chairman, contact tracing committee on COVID-19 in Bauchi, said, “It was the state Governor that ordered us that we should put N1,500 per single meal in a day,” he said.

“That is, N1,500 meal during breakfast, the same amount for lunch as well as dinner because he doesn’t want anybody in isolation to suffer or complain so that we won’t have any riot like in some other states.

“This brings the total amount of money on meal per day to N4,500 on a single patient.”

“Recently, three people called me and they were asking that they wanted to be admitted in isolation centre,” he said.

“One of them was from Giade Local Government Area of the state and because we recently discharged a lot of people from that area, obviously they had given them information on how they were taken care of.

“All these people were pleading with me to come and pick them up and take them to an isolation centre, they said they wanted to enjoy the chicken, eggs, fried potatoes and all the goodies our patients are having while in isolation.”

Currently, Bauchi has 232 confirmed cases of COVID-19, out of which 164 had been discharged after recovering..#