Lagos govt says some people flee after testing positive for COVID-19 to avoid isolation centres

Lagos State government said on Friday many COVID-19 patients flee from their homes to avoid being taken to the state’s isolation facilities for treatment.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this at the state secretariat, said the problem was one of the reasons the state still had unoccupied beds at the isolation centres despite recording more cases than its available bed-capacity.

He said: “There is also a situation that we experience, when we test people, sometimes they find it difficult to find them. The ambulances will go into community, people will flee their homes, and they make it difficult for us to find them.”

The commissioner also revealed that some patients sometimes shut their doors or they leave their environment to avoid being admitted.

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“If you have tested positive, we expect you to cooperate with us and make yourself available so that you can be admitted and accessed.

“Our isolation facilities are really comfortable, it is not like the Ebola days, we have made a lot of improvements,” Abayomi added.

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