Ogun State government on Monday said it has opened an Oxygen Therapy Center to avoid a situation of scarcity of the life-saving consumable.
The State
Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who made this known in Abeokuta, said
that the Oxygen Therapy Center which sits within the Infectious Disease
Hospital, Iberekodo, Abeokuta consists of 20 beds of high dependency capacity.
Coker said
the opening of the Oxygen Therapy Centre as part of the preparation to scale up
the state preparedness to contain the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Coker
affirmed that the state and nation at large is in the deep of the second wave
of the Covid-19 pandemic, describing the infectivity rate of the new strain as
being highly infectious.
According to
her, “the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital ( OOUTH) Isolation
centre is at 90 per cent capacity right now which means that people have to
take cognizance of being responsible for their own health.”
“Our
positivity rate prior to December was roving around 0.7 – 0.8 per cent but
since December, particularly January, our positivity rate has gone up by about
8 per cent which means that this second wave is real. Hence, we all have to pay
attention and do all the necessary things needed to protect ourselves,” Coker
said.
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