Lagos Government Spends 1m Daily on Each COVID-19 Patient – Abayomi, Health Commissioner

Lagos State Government revealed it spends between N100,000 and N1m daily on each of the COVID-19 patients in the state.

This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, during a media briefing on Thursday.

Abayomi explained that the state government spends averagely about N100,000 daily to treat patients with mild and moderate cases, and about N500,000 and N1m, for a patient with a serious case.

However, Abayomi added that what he provided was a rough estimate as it would be very difficult to calculate what it costs the state government to treat a COVID-19 patient.

According to him, the cost covers treatment, cost of feeding, accommodation, the services provided by the healthcare givers, etc.

Abayomi also revealed that about 2,036 COVID-19 patients have not been picked from the community in the last two weeks, due to preference for home treatment, logistic issues, wrong information provided in their forms and inability to reach such patients because their phones were switched off.