Coronavirus: Isolation Centres In Lagos Will Soon Run Out Of Bed Spaces - Akin Abayomi

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, portends a grim future for isolation centres in the state with the increasing number of COVID-19 in the country. 

He stated that the state will run out of bed spaces at its various isolation centres if the COVID-19 infection numbers keep surging.

He disclosed this on Friday during a chat with the press.

Lagos State has recorded a total of 5,542 coronavirus cases, making it the epicentre of the disease.

The commissioner said, “We’ve been testing more. 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.

“And this has happened all over the world; it’s not just in Lagos or Nigeria. Every other country has reached the same tipping point where you now have to transition from managing patients in an isolation centre to managing patients who are not that unwell at home, and reserving the isolation centres for people who are feeling unwell and need to be monitored more closely by medical personnel.”

AllNews reports that Nigeria has a total of 11, 844 coronavirus cases.