COVID-19: Sanwo-Olu Commissions Etiosa, Oxygen Therapy Center

The Lagos State Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo Olu has commissioned a permanent Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre in Eti-Osa Local Government Area to deliver swift emergency oxygen therapy to crucial COVID-19 cases in the area.

The facility which would double as a COVID19 sample collection center is located within the area of the Eti-Osa Maternal and Child Care Centre.

Eko Hot Blog gathered that the facility is also one of 10 facilities strategically located in 10 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the State with high burden of COVID-19 cases.

Articulating during the official launch of the facility, Sanwo-Olu revealed that the need to better organize severe-to-critical COVID19 cases incited the State government to build and deploy the oxygen therapy centers in 10 high burden provincial government areas.

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“One of the strategies adopted in response to the recent increase in COVID19 infection is the provision of the COVID19 Permanent Sample Collection Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre in 10 local government areas across Lagos to support patients with oxygen before they are transferred to care centers”

Exemplified by the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, he understood that the project which was handled by super-fast project management was inevitable to prepare against the second wave of the COVID 19 Pandemic.

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