'Every case is different and it is very difficult to calculate exactly how much managing a COVID-19 patient would cost,' an official said.
The Lagos State Government has provided more explanation on its earlier announcement that it spends between N500,000 and N1 million to take care of COVID-19 patients in critical condition.an earlier statement by the health commissioner, Akin Abayomi, that the state spends about N100,000 daily to treat non-complicated COVID-19 cases and N500,000 to N1 million daily to treat complicated ones.
Mr Omotosho said said Mr Abayomi’s statement was misinterpreted, thus necessitating an explanation by the government. “Every case is different and it is very difficult to calculate exactly how much managing a COVID-19 patient would cost, but what is clear to us is that when you add up the expenses of maintaining the facility, infrastructure, human resources, feeding and consumables, it costs the government approximately 100,000 naira per day for a non-complicated COVID-19 admission,” Mr Omotosho said in the statement.
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