Four patients have escaped, Friday morning, from the Delta State Isolation and Treatment Centre for COVID-19 at the Central Hospital, Warri.
Pleading anonymity, a source confirmed the escape. he said, the four COVID-19 patients included a navy officer, a lawyer and his son and a male patient.
He said: “The four patients insisted that they were not COVID-19 patients but had fever. We were having 10 COVID-19 patients in our isolation and treatment centre here in the Central Hospital, Warri. Yesterday we discharged two and were left with eight patients.
“So, this morning, four out of the remaining eight patients escaped from the centre after claiming that what they had was mere fever.
“But frantic efforts are being made to have them back to the center. We have since reported the situation to the Commissioner for Health.”
