The Ministry of Health has announced that volunteer doctors have taken up responsibility in monitoring self-isolated coronavirus patients at home to ensure they are rapidly cured of the virus.

“Volunteer doctors have taken it upon themselves to account for positive cases that are self-isolating at home by regularly calling and monitoring their conditions,” the ministry said.

The ministry’s announcement comes after its erected tents at the national stadium in Bakau and its plan to transformed Kanifing General Hospital, the second biggest hospital in Gambia to a coronavirus treatment centre.

But scores of Gambians including both America and Europe- based Gambian doctors and nurses deferred to the ministry’s announced plan.

The Gambia is known to have registered 2,708 confirmed cases of coronavirus – in which 93 people have died of the virus.

It has also pushed President Adama Barrow to seek support from his Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall, who last Saturday sent a three-man delegation of health professionals to help the country fight coronavirus pandemic.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba