FG MAY HAVE TO USE HOTELS AND SCHOOLS AS ISOLATION CENTRES – OSAGIE EHANIRE
The Federal Government may have to use hotels and school hostels as quarantine and isolation centres to accommodate covid-19 patients.
This was confirmed by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire.
Ehanire disclosed this yesterday at the Presidential Task Force on covid-19 briefing in Abuja.
Ehanire stated that there are four levels of covid-19 patients ranging from those on quarantine with little or no symptoms to those that need to be in an intensive care unit (ICU).
He said; “We have sadly recorded 254 deaths, most of them are persons associated with other ailments, confirming the general observation that risks are higher for those with illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes and non-communicable diseases.
“We need to continue increasing bed capacity to match the probable number of patients so that we do not experience horrific scenes of bed space shortages seen in some European hospitals.
“In event of overflow, we can require hotels and school dormitories to be prepared for level 1 which is quarantine, and level 2, is the isolation of COVID-19 positive with zero or mild symptoms, to free hospital beds to be dedicated to level 3 which are moderate to severe cases and level 4 which is for the high dependency and the intensive care unit.
“I, therefore, call on activists and philanthropists to work with State Governments to scale up non-pharmaceutical measures and beef up infrastructural assets for isolation and treatment in their states.”
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