{"id":6102,"date":"2021-02-26T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:02:48","slug":"the-compensation-is-abysmally-poor-covid-19-doctors-in-abuja-reveal-their-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/the-compensation-is-abysmally-poor-covid-19-doctors-in-abuja-reveal-their-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The compensation is abysmally poor&#8221;: Covid-19 doctors in Abuja reveal their struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>By Isaac Abrak<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Doctors in Abuja, Nigeria, spoke to Sahelien.com about how the pandemic is affecting their lives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re at war. Your family must understand that during wartime, certain people will be at the war front,\u201d said Dr. Olubanjo Akerele, case manager at Asokoro Isolation Centre in Abuja. For the first six or seven months of the pandemic, he was isolated from his family to avoid spreading the disease.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI can tell you, and I have to say frankly, the compensation the government is giving to healthcare workers is abysmally poor, Dr. Akerele said. \u201cIf you have the largest economy that\u2019s not translating into well-being for citizens, something\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Abrak Doctors in Abuja, Nigeria, spoke to Sahelien.com about how the pandemic is affecting their lives. \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re at war. Your family must understand that during wartime, certain people will be at the war front,\u201d said Dr. Olubanjo Akerele, case manager at Asokoro Isolation Centre in Abuja. For the first six or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,65],"tags":[85,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-6102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-societe","8":"category-west-africa","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-nigeria","11":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}