COVID-19: University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has no Isolation Centre – CMD
The CMD, who was speaking in Calabar, explained that the only Isolation Centre he knew of belong to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital and that the Isolation Centre is a five rooms facility that has four standard ICU beds and two functional ventilators.
“At the beginning of the COVID-19 scare, our Isolation Centre was far from being completed, and still is. We had to mobilize items from within the hospital with donations from the NCDC and the Cross River State Government to get four rooms functional including a staff area. “A protocol for the management of any suspected case has been drawn up in accordance with NCDC protocol and this has been activated by our COVID-19 Task Force.
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