Home-based care would be provided with a COVID-19 pack with which they can monitor their body temperature, measure their oxygen level and be given certain vitamins and pain-relieving drugs to manage themselves. Lagos Covid19 Nigeria
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this yesterday at a news briefing to give situation report on COVID-19 management in Lagos, explained that the government was working on parameters to integrate home-based care to the isolation strategy in the management of cases, stressing that asymptomatic and mild stage of the infection would now be managed at home, rather than isolation centres.
He stressed that the government would pay more attention to patients with moderate and severe cases and manage such cases at the isolation centres, because they are not suitable to be managed at home. The commissioner explained that the state’s testing capacity was being ramped up, as it now has the capacity to perform 1,000 test per day and working at raising the capacity to 2,000 or 3,000 per day, so that everybody that needs testing or wishes to be tested could get tested.
“So, if you want to manage COVID-19 in Lagos State, we are not saying you cannot. All you need to do is to submit an application and we will visit your facility to ensure that you have the required equipment and specialised personnel to manage COVID-19 cases. If you can demonstrate that you can do all these, then we will give you the approval to manage the disease.
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