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Lagos Begins Home Treatment for COVID-19 patients

The Lagos State government is set to begin home treatment for sufferers of Coronavirus.

The state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, said the state is hoping to make home isolation and care “an official option for some patients”, especially those with mild symptoms of the infection.

The commissioner said the recent decision stemmed from the observed increase in the number of people avoiding isolation centres and practising self-treatment at various places.

“There are people who are already practising self/home-isolation on their own, because we can’t find them, the numbers they give us are (maybe) false or they don’t answer their phones. When you go out to pick them at their residences, they have absconded. So, they are isolating themselves in different places.

“In effect, the concept of home-isolation is being practised by many Nigerians, even though it is not yet a state or national practice.

“The people of Lagos are practising home isolation, which is one of the reasons that we as the government are trying to transition to home care because it is happening anyway, we might as well regularise it and make it an official option,” the commissioner said.

Abayomi said the state’s isolation and treatment centres are currently 60 to 70 per cent filled.

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Monday Ashibogwu

Monday Michaels Ashibogwu is Editor-In-Chief of QUICK NEWS AFRICA, one of Nigeria's leading online news service.

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