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COVID-19: We Are Running Out Of Bed Spaces, Lagos State Cries Out
...May Resort to Home Care
A red flag was, Friday, raised by the Lagos State Government, in its battle against COVID-19 in the state as it announced that it would run out of bed spaces in its isolation centres the prevalence of the disease continue to climb.
But the state Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who revealed this at a press briefing Ikeja, the state capital, said the government was not throwing up its hands in despair.
Rather, the state had started developing strategies to manage asymptomatic patients at home. This, the Commissioner hoped, would help tackle any spike in the number of cases.
“We’ve been testing more,” Prof. Abayomi said. “We’ve been escalating our capacity to test for COVID-19 and what we’ve found is that the more we test, the more we find, which is a reflection of the fact that COVID-19 is spreading within the community and we’re finding more cases than we can manage eventually when we project.
“If we carry on with the rate of positive testing that we are obtaining, we’re going to run out of isolation beds in our established isolation facilities.
“Therefore, we are projecting. If we keep getting 150, 200 positives everyday, in another two or three weeks, even though we’re opening new isolation centres all the time, in time, we’re going to run out of beds.”
