By Ousman Jatta
The management of Seaview Group has slammed accusations by the ministry of health of having problems with them prompting the ministry to move its coronavirus patients from Bambo Hotel to elsewhere as totally false.
Since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Seaview Group were the first hotel operators to partner with the ministry of health, by receiving patients who tested positive for covid-19 and needed to undergo fourteen days’ quarantine. However, the recent comments by the ministry of health, has disenchanted the management of the group.
“We have been there when everybody shut their doors up, because most of the hotels where saying that they will not take anyone, since day one we have been with the ministry of health, we have been supporting them, we been sacrificing for them, Every single day,” Manager Matta Ceesay told the Fatu Network in an exclusive interview.
“We are a Gambian own hotel, we are helping Gambians because 75% of the patients are Gambians, so if we shut up our doors, who will help them, no one! At the end of the day, no one want to go to sanatorium, no wants to go to Demban, because they are already traumatizing.
“If anything happens I think the patients are the ones who are supposed to complain, because they are the wants dwelling in the hotel and can therefore say that they did not like the hotel services,” she added.
The Fatu Network spoke with the patients and none shared any report of having issues with the hotel. They instead complained the health ministry officials asked them to move to another hotel because the president is visiting the area.
