A medical doctor, who treated Coronavirus patient dies in Lagos on Wednesday after he contracted the virus from a patient, became the first health worker in Nigeria to die of COVID-19.
The doctor, 51, who died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, was rushed to the facility on Monday after attempting to manage a COVID-19 patient in a private hospital in Lagos.
The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Prof Wasiu Adeyemo, said the doctor was not a staff of the hospital but was rushed to the facility after he showed symptoms of the disease.
“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, and he left LUTH around 2002. 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),” Adeyemo said.
The LUTH CMAC said he would not disclose the name of the doctor and his hospital as it was against the ethics of the medical profession.
Meanwhile, Ekiti state governor Kayode Fayemi has relaxed the lockdown imposed on the state by giving a directive that citizens are allowed to go about their normal activities between 6 am and 2 pm on Thursday April 16 to restock and undertake economic pursuits that would keep their households till the curfew will be lifted.
The governor had on April 13 has extended 14 days lockdown as part of measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the Ekiti state.
