A man, who was suspected to have been infected with C0VID-19 has died at a government hospital in Ipe Akoko in the Akoko North-East Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.
According to report by The PUNCH, a source disclosed that family members of the deceased made efforts to reach the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control in Owo, but the officials allegedly claimed that logistics was not available to travel down to pick up the patient for test.
The PUNCH also gathered from an health worker whose identity was withheld that the deceased’s COVID-19 status could not be determined.
The source said “We couldn’t ascertain the travel record of the patient. The suspicious thing was why did they bring the patient from Ikare to come to a remote area here?
He added that “the patient was brought in unconscious with fever of 40 degrees Celsius, and cough with grunting respiration.
“We called the NCDC (officials) in the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, who promised to come to collect sample but they told us later they could not come due to logistics and we should release the corpse to the relatives,
“Imagine that, even the relatives that brought the patient yesterday ( Monday) were on gloves and mask, meaning they even suspected something.”
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahaab Adegbenro, who confirmed the incident, insisted that the deceased’s case was not that of COVID-19, despite the fact that no actual test was conducted.
Adegbenro said,
“Proper diagnosis was carried out on the patient by the medical personnel while on admission in the hospital. The only patient who tested positive for COVID-19 at the FMC Owo is now receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Akure.”
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