COVID-19: Lagos, FCT shut seven treatment centres
Eniola Akinkuotu, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Tunde Ajaja, Alexander Okere, Wale Oyewale and Daud Olatunji
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Eniola Akinkuotu, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Tunde Ajaja, Alexander Okere, Wale Oyewale and Daud Olatunji
Published 6:45 am
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The two cities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic – Lagos and Abuja – have begun shutting down isolation centres as Nigerians snub the medical facilities,
Saturday PUNCH has learnt.
One of our correspondents in Abuja was informed that the National Hospital had discharged its last patient while the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, which attend to most severe cases, had about four patients as opposed to the average of 30 severe patients it used to have.
UPDATED: INVESTIGATION: How public laboratories redirect suspected COVID-19 patients to fee-charging private labs
Contrary to the claim of the Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus symptoms can get tested for free at some designated public health facilities, residents who show up for the test are being redirected to private, fee-charging laboratories.
Despite the announcement by the
Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus-like symptoms can go to designated government-run facilities to get tested for free, these laboratories are instead redirecting patients to private laboratories where they are charged as much as N50,000 for the test.
This reporter deliberately exposed himself to cold for four days and came down with symptoms similar to those of coronavirus – cough, headache, runny nose and fever – and presented himself for testing at some public laboratories in the city but officials at the laboratories declined to test him.
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There is no 100% guarantee that after COVID-19 vaccination one can’t contract coronavirus –Medical director, COVID-19 treatment centre, Ogunbiyi
Published 2 April 2021
Major General Obashina Ogunbiyi (retd.), a consultant anaesthetist and intensive care physician, is the Medical Director of Life Centre, a COVID -19 isolation and treatment centre in Lagos. In this interview with
FRIDAY OLOKOR
Coronavirus figures are going down. Is this not an indication that Nigeria is defeating the virus?
It is good news that the COVID – 19 figures are going down and this may be an indication that the populace are becoming more aware of the COVID – 19 protocols. On the other hand, maybe some people have decided to put themselves on “home care” with resurgence of symptoms of the disease. However, we must not relent in our efforts at containing the virus, now that the COVID – 19 vaccine is here in Nigeria. A challenge in the utilisation of the COVID – 19 vaccine includes t
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