Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health in Lagos, says
sometimes it is difficult for the state to locate patients after their samples
have been tested for the coronavirus.
According to the commissioner, such patients flee their
homes and become unreachable on their mobile phone lines.
Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, he said this was one
of the reasons the available bed spaces at the state’s isolation centres are
not yet filled to capacity.
He appealed to residents to cooperate with the health
workers as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
“There is also a situation that we experience; when we test
people, sometimes they find it difficult to find them. The ambulances will go
into communities, people will flee their homes, and they make it difficult for
us to find them,” he said.
“If you have tested positive, we expect you to cooperate
with us and make yourself available so that you can be admitted and accessed.
“Our isolation facilities are really comfortable. It is not
like the Ebola days; we have made a lot of improvements. Members of the
executive and senior people in government have been admitted into those
facilities. If I test positive, I will go to one of those facilities.”
He added that about 307 beds are unoccupied out of the 569
spaces available.
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