Opeyemi Adelere
The President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Chief Yomi Otubela, has said that private school owners will not release their facilities to be used as isolation centres.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, had during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 in Abuja last Thursday, announced that schools and hotels would be used as isolation centres due to shortage of bed spaces for patients in isolation centres.
The minister had explained that the Federal Government was planning to convert dormitories to isolation centres in a bid to increase bed capacity to meet the increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, so that the country would not experience horrific scenes of bed space shortages seen in some European hospitals.
But in a statement on Sunday, Otubela said private school owners rejected the idea, noting that he had not heard of any European country that turned schools to Isolation centres in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said, “We should copy and copy rightly. Schools are meant for children and we should not use them for a purpose that will make them lose interest in schooling. Private school owners will never allow the use of their facilities as isolation centres”.
He urged the government to consider converting large expanses of land and abandoned facilities as isolation centers.
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