Family members of a certain COVID-19 patient allegedly stormed an isolation centre at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta, on Monday to sneak out with their loved one, SaharaReporters says.
The escapee, according to reports was identified as one 53-year-old Michael Mordi, a Chief Nursing Officer in Central Hospital, Agbor, who tested positive for coronavirus on May 23, 2020 before being admitted at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, on May 24.
According to the family member, the patient was left without being fed and attended to. The family source according to SaharaReporters, said, the health officials refused to release the results of the test to the family.
“The state government is not being sincere on this issue of COVID-19 pandemic. So many innocent citizens being forced into isolation centres don’t really have the disease but that’s not to say it’s not real. The state government is making us believe its not real because of the way and manner they are forcing people into isolation centres. Our brother is a health worker too and knows what is involved in the game too.
“Because of the ill-treatment the state government and her health officials were giving our brother, hence we stormed the isolation centre at FMC, Asaba, and carried our brother home. How can you take someone to a place without showing him his test result, no food, no medication and no proper care and you expect such person to still be alive if he is left in that kind of hostile environment without food and good care right? They want to kill our brother and later count him among the deaths recorded in Delta State. We say no.”
The Commissioner for Health, Mordi Ononye, said in a statement, that since the admission of Mordi, he had thwarted all efforts by caregivers to take his medications, and had in fact reacted aggressively towards them.
He said, “At about 6 pm on June 1, 2020, against all medical advice, Mordi obviously consenting, was forcefully removed from the treatment centre by seven men who claimed to be his relatives and they did not wear any protective coverings, therefore, constituting a danger to their own health and that of populations and communities with which they come in contact.”
