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Former Commissioner for Sports in Ogun state during Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s tenure, Hon. Bukola Olopade has indicated interest in starting a Medical Hero’s Foundation in a bid to support the welfare of medical workers for the effort they are showing in other to ensure that patients infected with CoronaVirus are properly treated.
The Lagos City Marathon Coordinator confirmed via Nigerian Sports Express on Jordan FM that he was now negative of the virus.
“Two things were on my mind, the first was to let the people I have been in contact with, that was a whole lot of people because I attended a party and I thought I have to be responsible to let people know that I have been diagnosed with Covid-19 so that people can be responsible, to either isolate themselves or also go for check up.
“To God be the glory everybody that I know have all come back negative including my family, my management team generally.
“It was a thing of two sides because my very first two days there left me in a very sober mood, it was challenging because I was finding my self in a space with a lot of people sharing toilet and bath rooms and I was feeling tired and lethargic from obvious cough and headache.
“But by the third day I adapted to the environment and adopted everything there and I started making new friends like you saw in the video that went viral when I was giving out energy and immune boosting fruit juice, so from there it was just matter of me giving myself out for treatment so that those ridiculous virus will leave my body so I can go back to the society and be myself again.
“It was just a mixed feeling but then again it was a thing of joy to be around wonderful medical staff, health Care givers who risk their life to make sure we all looked after properly.
“The second reason why I came out was because I do have a lot of influence among young people especially in my home state Ogun state and I taught my experience as a Commissioner where I use to interview people on HIV AIDS young people use to laugh at me, saying HIV/AIDS is not real.
“It was the same thing that was going to happen to COVID-19 and I taught now that it has happened to someone they have a lot of respect for it was important for me to also show them, that listen guys I have come down with this, the cough was terrible the headache was Scarry therefore please do your social distancing, ensure you wash your hands, respect government and health workers with all the advice they are giving so getting there spending three weeks people die next to my room, people died around me from this COVID-19 there was only one way but to come out of it and extended my explanation or campaign to the level that it will get to far or near so people will understand that it is real.
“By doing all this interview for people to understand that Health Care Workers need to be looked after, they are not being looked after and we all are guilty. You go to hospital because you are sick you are shouting at them, these guys are amazing the way they’ve treated us is humbling, its a life changing experience now.
“My approach to Health Care Workers from the Doctors, Nurses to the domestic staff are totally different and this is why am starting a Foundation immediately called MED HERO’S and am going to take it very far to my rich friends to my media friends, start raising enough money to start helping Health Care Workers so that they should know that they are also loved and care for not only them caring for us,” he added.
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