Why UCH lost 18 patients to COVID-19, by CMD
The Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital , Ibadan Prof. Jesse Otegbayo has explained why the hospital lost 18 persons out of the 159 COVID-19 patients it has treated so far.
“We have those mortalities because we take the sickest of the sick; the most severe cases are brought to the University College Hospital and that is the only place where they can be treated. Otegbayo revealed that the newly constructed Chief Tunde Afolabi Infectious Disease Centre donated by the Josephus Foundation was a 20-bed state-of-the-art centre.
“It is an infectious disease centre with state-of-the-art hospital beds, multiparameter monitor for all the beds, a 60kva generator, CCTV for all the rooms and monitoring centre, nurse bay and doctors call rooms.
Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
NCDC reveals why Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases are low - Daily Post NigeriaThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the low number of the COVID-19 cases in the country is due to the lesser amount of
Read more »
684 evacuees test positive to COVID-19 — PTF - The Nation NigeriaThe Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has revealed that 684 evacuees tested positive for COVID-19.This was revealed
Read more »
‘Nigeria’s 61 labs for COVID-19 testing not enough’|p style=
Read more »
WHO urges Nigeria to decentralise COVID-19 testing
Read more »