UDP on Sunday expressed fear designating the Kanifing Hospital as an ‘exclusive’ Covid-19 treatment center risks jeopardising access to healthcare for the large number of patients that rely on the facility for the treatment of non-Covid illnesses.
“The net result would be a denial of easy access to medical care for treatment of other illnesses,” the party through its leader Ousainou Darboe said while speaking at an event in Manjai Kunda marking 24 years of UDP’s existence.
The party through its leader then proffered that a better alternative would be to release to the Ministry of Health the “big air conditioned tents that Yahya Jammeh purchased with our funds currently sitting on statehouse grounds and position them at a suitable locations, properly equipped to be used as a treatment center for Covid 19 patients”.
“It can accommodate a large number of patients and their caregivers with some augmentation of materials and other resources. This will allow our limited health facilities to see a cross section of patients battling non Covid serious illnesses as the identified Covid cases are referred to the designated treatment centers,” the party said.
