Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the recovery and discharge of 26 more coronavirus patients.
Mr Sanwo-Olu said on Friday that the discharged persons are 14 males and 12 females including two foreign nationals – a Polish and a Filipino.
He said the patients, 14 from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba and 12 from the Onikan Isolation Centre, were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.
With this, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos is now 225.
The governor also commissioned a 118-bed Isolation and Treatment Centre located within the premises of Gbagada General Hospital for management of COVID-19 cases.
Within the three floor isolation and treatment facility are dedicated intensive care isolation unit, ventilators, monitors, respirators, mobile x-ray, ultrasound, oxygen among other ultra-odern medical equipment.
Speaking at the unveiling, Sanwo-Olu said an existing facility within the Gbagada General Hospital complex which was not in use was converted to the 118-bed bio-security complaint isolation and treatment facility after an extensive renovation and upgrade was carried out.
He added that the facility was revamped and converted to an isolation and treatment centre in order to provide additional capacity to already existing isolation centres in the state.
He said, “We have had to do extensive builders work and renovation of this health facility and make it conform to a biosecurity isolation facility. We are indeed happy and excited at the level of work done by the contractor and the supervising Ministry.
“This facility as you know, used to be the Cardiac and Renal Centre but has not been used for sometimes now, so what we have been doing in the last two and a half month is to upscale the facility, finish up with the builders’ work and revamp the entire place to conform with an Isolation Centre.”
The governor explained that the facility which is now designated for management of COVID19 cases has been demarcated into green, yellow and red zones in line with infection prevention and control management.
“Green Zone will be for the health workers before they enter into the premises, Yellow Zone is holding Bay for suspected COVID19 cases who are on observation while the Red Zone is for the management of confirmed COVID19 cases,” he said.
“The facility has an independent power supply and back up power generator for uninterrupted power supply. This facility, I must say is first class and of international standard and has all the trappings of clinical care unit.”
Sanwo-Olu who also used the occasion to celebrate frontline health workers and other allied professionals who are in the forefront of the COVID19 battle likened them to unsung heroes of the 2020 May Day celebration.
He said that two other isolation facilities dedicated solely for frontline health workers who may come in contact with COVID-19 have been completed and expected to go live today.
