More than 900 individual donors, including celebrities, and twenty corporate organizations, have donated to the N1 Billion Health Workers Fund ($2,631,578.95) initiated by Giving.ng, Nigeria’s premier crowdfunding platform. By the end of July 2020, the Fund, which was launched in April 2020 and seeded with N25 Million Naira by leading commercial bank, Sterling Bank Plc, had paid over N25.7 million in hazard allowances to one hundred and eleven frontline health workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic across the country. Health Workers earn just N5,000 ($13.16) monthly as hazard allowance in most hospitals in the country. The N1 Billion Health Workers Fund pays health workers N100,000 ($263.16) monthly for 3 months to encourage them to continue to provide quality service to patients in the hospitals fighting for their lives against COVID-19.
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