Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner of health, says the Italian
who tested positive to coronavirus, has been moved to a renovated facility.
The patient quarantined at the Infectious Disease Hospital
in Yaba, Lagos, had reportedly complained of excessive heat and mosquitoes and
had attempted to escape from the facility on Friday.
But while appearing on a show on Arise Television on
Saturday, the commissioner admitted that the patient had complained, but he said he is now comfortable in his new
ward.
“I saw him at about 6pm yesterday. He was explaining his
condition and we were taking some new data from him,” he said.
“He’s in an isolation room all by himself and we had moved
him into a particular room because we were doing a general overhaul of the
whole facility because we want to be ready.
“There were some discomforts in terms of heat, but about 9pm
we moved him over to the renovated facility which has lots of air conditioners,
fans and it’s a 28 bed brand new facility, and he’s there on his own in the
whole ward and as of 6am this morning I’m told he’s comfortable.”
The commissioner said they started renovations last week and
now have 100 bed capacity.
He said the Lagos government has been building capacity
since the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
“We’ve been building a bio security unit that includes
advanced diagnostic capacity. We’ve been building isolation wards which have
special air flow dynamics,” he said.
The Italian citizen entered Nigeria on the February 25 from
Milan, Italy for a brief business visit. About 28 people believed to have had
contact with him have been quarantined.
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