COVID-19: Unease As Over 20 Medical Personnel, Patients Test Positive In LUTH

This is a follow-up report on our exclusive story of May 21. A week-long painstaking investigation into the activities of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and other public health care centres in Lagos state — the epicenter of coronavirus in Nigeria — in relation to the handling of the COVID-19  pandemic

Hospital Management Shuts down children emergency ward.

Hazard allowance still not paid as infection spreads to cancer department

Over 20 medical personnel, patients at Lagos University Teaching Hospital have contracted the virulent COVID-19 infection, EkoHotBlog authoritatively reports.

The hospital is the worst hit of the medical facilities designated for the treatment of COVID-19 in the state. The fresh gale of infection to hit the hospital is coming on the heels of previous cases that saw most clinics and departments of the hospital shut down over fear of imminent spread.

It would be recalled that EkoHotBlog had in an exclusive report detailed how over fourty frontline workers across departments got infected due to lack of equipment, like PPEs, needed for the satefy of medical personnel tending to COVID-19 patients.

The report also revealed how the hospital has not been operating optimally due to paucity of funds and lack of subventions from the federal government.

Read full report below here

COVID-19: Panic In Lagos As Over 40 Medical Personnel Test Positive In LUTH

But in this new wave of infection, the children emergence ward is affected and has been shut down, an impeccable source at the hospital confided in EkoHotBlog.

Our source disclosed that over seven doctors other workers and patients at the ward have been infected.

Also caught in the web of infection is the cancer department where ten workers have tested positive.

In our exclusive report, one of the focal subjects that was broached was the non-payment of hazard allowance and other benefits the health workers are entitled to, so worrisome was the situation that workers, especially medical personnel, had to resort to using personal money to purchase basic medical equipment.

Interestingly, after over a week of the report, medical workers are yet to be paid their hazard allowance.