There was a mild drama at the Oyo state Infectious Disease Center on Saturday when a young woman refused to follow her father home after she was discharged from the isolation centre, TheCable reports
The graduate of statistics from a
school in the state was among the 20 people discharged from the centre after
they were treated for COVID-19.
When the
isolation centre which is located in Olodo area of Ibadan was visited, relatives of those
who were to be discharged were outside the gate waiting anxiously for their
loved ones.
An official of the centre, who preferred anonymity,disclosed that the patients were allowed to go home after testing negative for coronavirus.
“They were here for different
duration of time. Some of them had spent more than four weeks at the centre
receiving treatment. They were discharged after our medical team that they had
tested negative for the virus,” he said.
Among those waiting for their
loved ones was a pastor who is the father of the young woman.
He said that his
daughter began exhibiting a wayward attitude after graduating from school.
“She is my second child but after
her graduation from the school of statistics, she refused to come home. I only
got to know that she had been isolated at the centre through a relative she
confided in. I am a man of God and I will continue to pray for her,” he said.
The drama began after the young
woman opted to follow a soldier who came to pick her with a motorcycle.
The father approached the soldier
but after about five minutes of discussion, the lady was taken away on the
motorcycle while her father left the centre in annoyance.
It was gathered that the
soldier was admitted to the isolation centre but got discharged after
recovering from the disease.
“The soldier the girl followed
home was one the the three soldiers at the isolation centre when the girl was
on admission,” a discharged patient who did not want to be names said.
“Before the soldier was
discharged, he and the girl were very close. They mingled together.”
Among those discharged were aged
men and women, and a student of the University of Ibadan.
Some of the discharged patients
said that they were happy to reunite with their families after
receiving a clean bill of health.
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