Oyo discharges 11 COVID-19 patients

Eleven COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the infectious disease centre in Oyo state.

Temitope Alonge, coordinator of the state isolation and treatment centres, gave a breakdown of the patients as eight males and three females.

He added that the patients had stayed for two weeks and five days at the treatment centre.

Alonge said there are 32 patients currently at the centre and all are in stable condition, including a couple and their children.

“On behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde, the Executive Governor of Oyo State, we want to sincerely appreciate the staff of the ministry of health ably led by Dr Soji Adeyanju, the Permanent Secretary, Hospital Management Board, and also the Doctor in charge of the Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo,” Alonge said.

“We have had a lot of patients who have been discharged, yet this is probably the largest number till date. We have eleven of them who have tested negative twice and they will be discharged to go home today.

“We want to thank God for seeing them through. We are glad that they have recovered and are on their way home. Eleven of our clients are on their way home, Three females and eight males.

“The patients have stayed for between five days and two weeks at the treatment centre. We still have 32 patients at the isolation centre. And all of them are very stable.

“We only have one of them who has a co-morbid issue and hemoglobinopathy and as I speak, one of our senior consultants at the University College Hospital is attending to him and also another consultant in psychiatry is going to come later to counsel this particular client on the use of medications because we found out that he was using too many medications which can be injurious to his health.

“Apart from that, we even have a family here comprising a father, mother and children and they are all fine.

“Eight of the travellers who were intercepted from the north are among those released.”