The Lagos state government has announced that it will be reopening two COVID-19 isolation centres which were initially decommissioned, following the increased cases of Coronavirus in the state.
According to
the State Commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi, the reopening will
boost confidence in tackling cases as they arise.
Abayomi said;
“Just to be
on the safe side, we are reopening two of our decommissioned facilities, that
is at Ajah and Ikeja. We are also reopening Gbagada Isolation facility.
“Just to give
us the confidence that, should in case we suddenly continue to see higher
numbers of severe cases, we will have somewhere to manage them."
The
commissioner also revealed that the state government is working on building
oxygen plants for more health facilities.
Abayomi
added;
“In addition,
we are making our own oxygen so we just erected the first of two plants at IDH.
The second one will be at Gbagada and that plant produces oxygen on the grounds
of our hospital and it can produce up to 60 cylinders a day. A very sick
patients can use up to four or six cylinders in 24 hours."
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