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Covid-19: FCTA to pay N50,000 daily hazard allowance to Doctors, Nurses

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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced that it will pay N50,000 daily hazzard allowance to all Medical Doctors providing various services in the fight against the dreaded coronavirus pandemic in the nation’s capital.

Mohammed Kawo, Acting Secretary of the FCTA Health Secretariat who disclosed this at the FCT briefing on Covid-19 said Nurses and Laboratory Technicians involved in the process will be paid N30,000 daily while Drivers and Cleaners are paid N20, 000 daily.

Also, the FCTA Director of Public Health, Josephine Okechukwu announced that the Health Authorities will begin pilot testing for Covid-19 on Friday at the Mpape District of Abuja.

Details later…

James Kwen, Abuja