Some private hospitals, which shut down operations after some of their staff members became exposed to coronavirus patients, have given details of how carriers of the deadly virus came to their facili
ties.revealed that the affected hospitals had suspended operations to decontaminate their facilities and adhere to other guidelines stipulated by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for exposed hospitals.
Some of the officials said hospitals were in a dilemma because some health conditions such as malaria fever had symptoms similar to COVID-19, pointing out that the situation would become worse if every patient who came to seek treatment for other ailments had to be forced to go for COVID-19 testing before being attended to.
Okocha expressed sadness that the patient lied to him and did not disclose that he had had contact with a COVID-19 victim, saying if the patient had disclosed this, he would have referred him to the designated centres for treating coronavirus patients. Because of the development, Okocha said some of the nurses at the hospital panicked, even though they had personal protective equipment, and posted the news on social media.
“What we are telling the government now is that patients like that will always come. So in this situation, what are we supposed to do? COVID-19 comes with fever, so does that mean anybody who has fever will be asked to go and do COVID-19 test before we treat them? That won’t work. “We did not admit or treat anybody that is confirmed to have COVID-19. We carry out kidney transplant in this hospital and kidney transplant patients are placed on immunosuppressive medication, so as a matter of policy, there is no way we will go and treat them with patients with COVID-19. We will not admit any patient who we know has a confirmed case of COVID-19. “
Although our correspondent could not speak with the Chief Medical Director of Premier Specialists Hospital, one of the doctors at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a member of staff of the hospital brought the virus there. “At this point, we had to take him to Yaba and use every connection we had to get him admitted there without his result. When they admitted him, the test result came out and the NCDC came and asked about everybody who had contact with him and the other lady who also tested positive.
He declined to make further comment, asking one of our correspondents to go and read a statement the hospital had issued on the matter.Meanwhile, in a related development, workers at the Randle General Hospital, Surulere, Lagos State, are in panic after a COVID-19 patient brought to the hospital died of the infection.learnt that the victim, a 65-year-old woman, had presented to the hospital on Sunday with difficulty in breathing.
He said, “The woman was a petty trader. She sold drugs to people and had a fever, which I believed she tried to treat on her own. Another source said shortly after the samples were taken, the patient was taken to LUTH by noon. However, she was rejected. “That was when she told us, and she said only two people will go on isolation since others don’t have symptoms.
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