The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it is considering the management of COVID-19 patients in their homes.
Chikwe Ihekweazu, director-general of the NCDC, spoke about
this at the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday.
According to him, there are challenges with getting enough
bed spaces at isolation centres, and as such, patients may have to self-isolate
in their homes under strict guidelines.
“Ultimately, we might have to change our strategy a little
bit, start considering home care in certain circumstances, where first we are
able to provide a room where a patient can be managed sufficiently, and
secondly we’re able to support the care by enabling healthcare workers come to
that,” he said.
“But we will always be honest with Nigerians. We are
struggling at the moment. We might have to adapt our strategy because of the
realities we face over the next few days and weeks and as we do that, we’ll
make that clear to Nigerians.
“Our policy hasn’t changed, but the pressure is there and
that might have to change in the next few days.”
He also announced that there were plans to expand testing in
Lagos, Kano and the federal capital territory, which currently have the highest
number of active COVID-19 cases in the country.
“We are in the process of scaling up testing across the
country and the key component that has changed in this is that in Lagos, Abuja
and Kano, instead of waiting for people to call us, we are now going to where the
patients are,” he added.
According to the NCDC situation report of April 29, 2020, of
Nigeria’s total of 1,728 confirmed cases, 1,370 are active.
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