A 51-year-old medical doctor has been reported as the first health worker to die of coronavirus in Nigeria.
Reports claim that the doctor contacted the virus after attempting to treat a patient with Coronavirus in a private hospital in Lagos and was rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital after showing symptom of the virus.
The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Prof Wasiu Adeyemo, who confirmed the death of the doctor, who’s name was withheld, in a statement disclosed that the doctor was not a staff of the hospital but was rushed to the facility after he showed symptoms of the disease.
Adeyemo said:
“The doctor is not a LUTH staff; he was a private practitioner, though he trained in LUTH some 18, 20 years ago. I remember I met him, I know him, he left LUTH around 2002.
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“One of his classmates called me that he has some issues in his private hospital, so I asked that he should be brought to LUTH. He was COVID-19 positive, we started him on drugs but unfortunately, he died this morning (Wednesday).”