The Member of Parliament for Nabdam has called on the general public to celebrate coronavirus recovered patients and accept them into the society.
The MP, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane in a statement on the ‘stigmatisation, discrimination and fear of recovered Covid-l9 patients’ made on the floor of Parliament on 27th May 2020 said, “these recovered patients are our heroes and heroine”.
According to him “they are not our villains and under no circumstances should they be castigated”. He therefore, called on collegues MPs, the media, N.C.C.E, health practitioners, Civil Society Groups and recognized Associations to join in the fight against “stigmatisation, discrimination and fear against recovered Covid-19 patients”.
Dr. Naawane submitted that this unwelcome development; stigmatization, discrimination and fear of recovered patients threaten not only to erode the positive gains that the country has made in the fight against the coronavirus but actually derail the forward move and cooperation that the state has received from the citizenry specifically Covid-19 patients.
He said, “media reports; the television, Radio, Prints and social media monitored over the last month suggest that recovered patients of Covid-19 are not readily accepted by their own families, communities, friends and sometimes at the work place”. The rejection he stated “can be so intense that even their immediate family members like children, wife and others can be affected.
In one report a child who wanted to buy food was denied access because his father had returned home after recovering from Covid-19″. ” In the video clip, the child who was referred to as “coroboy” was asked to return to his “corohouse” where his “corofather” had returned home, the MP mentioned.
