The Federal Government has stated that it was disturbed by increasing rejection of patients by hospitals, saying medical directors would be held responsible for the laxity.

The Minister of Health, Dr  OSAGIE EHANIRE, who stated this during a meeting involving the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Capital Territory Administration and medical directors in the FCT, also lamented that hospitals were delaying testing of   COVID-19 patients, leading to increasing coronavirus deaths.

The ministers said, “No emergency should be denied attention, even if it means admitting on a stretcher or an examination couch to give lifesaving oxygen.