The Commissioner for Health Lagos State, Professor Akin Abayomi, on Thursday said six more people have recovered from the Coronavirus in Nigeria.
He revealed this in an exclusive interview with Sheriff Quadry on the Morning Crossfire on Nigeria Info FM.
According to Abayomi, six people will be discharged from the isolation centre in the State on Friday. “We are going to discharge six out of our 24 patients. So our admitted patients will go down theoretically to 18 but if we admit more they will go up.”
Meanwhile, Abayomi assured Nigerians that the government is working hard to ensure cases of coronavirus are contained adding that Lagos State has “expanded capacities” to deal with the pandemic.
He added that the Lagos State government is building 250 bed capacity tents in three locations and are also “refurbishing a whole hospital in Gbagada” to accomodate potential patients.
Speaking on the state of the wards,The Health Commisioner also made it clear that recovering patients “can’t be reinfected while still in the ward” adding that the wards are “very comfortable” and clean with patients having access to Wifi and television but he insists that patients have to remain in the ward till ” they survive the virus.”
The Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on Health, Dr Tunde Ajayi also took to his twitter handles to disclosed this.
UPDATE!!!!#COVID19Lagos
— Tunde Ajayi (@thetundeajayi) March 26, 2020
6 of our #COVID19 inpatients have recovered and will be discharged soon.
There’s something Lagos is doing right. Lagos takes the lead. 💯💯💯
“There’s something Lagos is doing right. Lagos takes the lead.” He added.