official helping his colleague with his PPE.
The management of the Olabisi Onabanjo University
Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) has confirmed that eight of its
laboratory workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Dr Peter
Adefuye, who confirmed this, denied reports that 20 workers had
tested positive for the virus.
Dr Adefuye blamed initial reports on people bent on denting
the image of the present administration in Ogun State and the
efforts of the hospital to manage the pandemic.
More than eight of the laboratory workers had voluntarily had
the test but only eight tested positive for the virus.
All those who tested positive are asymptomatic and they have
been asked to self-isolate in line with the World Health
Organisation and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines,
according to Dr Adefuye.
south-west Nigeria.
“It is no news that doctors, nurses or any form of health
officials have tested positive across the country and globally
respectively, but playing cards with human health in this respect
is uncalled for,” he said
Adefuye commended the state government for its commitment to the
fight against COVID-19, adding that had been making Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) and all necessary things available to
the hospital without leaving any stone unturned.
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Although there continue to be concerns about the spread of
COVID-19 and safety, Dr Adefue ruled out the possibility of the
hospital shutting down on account of the pandemic.
“Soldiers cannot for the sake of war refuse to go to battle. The
same is applicable to health workers. This is the reason we are
called heroes as life savers,” he said.
“After all, health workers understand that they do not wear
anything more than PPE to attend to HIV/AIDS patients. So, why
should some people in some quarters use this to embarrass the
government and management of the hospital?”
The CMD called on the media practitioners and general
public to explore only official means to source for information and
shun hearsay which, according to him, is capable of
sensationalising sensitive issues in the name of political
gains.
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