A senior registrar in the department of anaesthesiology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), has died of COVID-19 complications.
UCTH’s association of resident doctors announced the death of Odii Stanley. A statement released by the group disclosed that the senior doctor died on the morning of Wednesday, July 14.
According to the association, “On behalf of the entire membership of ARD UCTH, I regret to bring to your notice the untimely demise of Dr Odii Stanley.
“Until his death, he was a Senior Registrar in the Department of Anaesthesiology. We lost him yesterday morning to complications of COVID-19.
“May his gentle soul find eternal repose in Abraham’s bosom.”
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Recall that there has been an upsurge in COVID-19 cases in Nigeria and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) disclosed that states will reintroduce measures for curbing the spread of the virus.
The governors also said they will liaise with the federal government on ways to speed up the delivery of additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu on Wednesday also warned that Nigeria was at high risk of a surge in COVID cases.
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