After complaining of poor condition and attempting to flee quarantine, the Italian who tested positive to coronavirus, has been moved to a renovated facility, Lagos commissioner of health, Prof. Akin Abayomi confirms.
The patient attempted to escape quarantine after complaining of too much mosquitoes and heat at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.
While speaking on a show on Arise Television on Saturday, the commissioner admitted that the patient had complained, but added that he is now comfortable in his new ward.
“I saw him at about 6pm yesterday. He was explaining his condition and we were taking some new data from him,” he said.
“He’s in an isolation room all by himself and we had moved him into a particular room because we were doing a general overhaul of the whole facility because we want to be ready.
“There were some discomforts in terms of heat, but about 9 pm we moved him over to the renovated facility which has lots of air conditioners, fans and it’s a 28-bed brand new facility, and he’s there on his own in the whole ward and as of 6 am this morning I’m told he’s comfortable.”
Even though the commissioner didn’t give Nigerians a glimpse of the new facility via photos, he said they started renovations last week and now have the 100-bed capacity.
He said the Lagos government has been building capacity since the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
“We’ve been building a biosecurity unit that includes advanced diagnostic capacity. We’ve been building isolation wards which have special airflow dynamics,” he said.
