COVID-19: Ogun Opens Oxygen Therapy Centre

Following the spike of Covid-19 in its second wave, the Ogun State government says an Oxygen Therapy Center has been opened to avoid a situation of scarcity of life-saving consumables.

State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, made this known in Abeokuta, on Monday.

She said that the Oxygen Therapy Center which sits within the Infectious Disease Hospital, Iberekodo, Abeokuta consists of 20 beds of high dependency capacity, adding that it part of the preparation to scale up the state preparedness to contain the second wave of the pandemic, Covid-19.

Dr Coker affirmed that the state and nation at large are in the deep of the second wave of the coronavirus, describing the infectivity rate of the new strain as being highly infectious.

According to her, “the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital ( OOUTH) Isolation centre is at 90 per cent capacity right now which means that people have to take cognizance of being responsible for their own health.”

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“Our positivity rate prior to December was roving around 0.7 – 0.8 per cent but since December, particularly January, our positivity rate has gone up by about 8 per cent which means that this second wave is real. Hence, we all have to pay attention and do all the necessary things needed to protect ourselves,” Coker said.

“We are more concern as a state but we are prepared. We have OOUTH, Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, Ikenne Isolation Centers all available.

“Our Oxygen Therapy Center in Iberekodo, Abeokuta will help to ensure that we do not run out of oxygen like some states are experiencing at the moment. We are responding appropriately to contain and curtail this second wave,” she said.

The Commissioner, however, pointed out that Ogun has tested over 50,000 residents which are 1 per cent of its population as stipulated by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).