Tension and Confusion has engrossed the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, in Ogun State as no fewer than 20 medical laboratory staff of the hospital and another family of four have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The family of four happened to contract the viral disease from their father who is one of the staff working in the hospital’s main laboratory.
According to reports, the death of a staff from the department, and illness and symptoms associated with Covid-19 among the some other staff prompted the staff of the laboratory to start going for the COVID-19 test last week Friday, August 13.
The results of the test started trickling in from last week Saturday to yesterday, confirming that 20 out of about 70 staff working in the medical laboratory of the hospital have contracted the virus while one of them had also infected his wife and three children.
This incident was said to have caused great confusion in the teaching hospital while those confirmed to be positive proceeded to self-isolation.
According to Vanguard, One of the staff of the hospital who spoke on the condition of anonymity said “the OOUTH management under Dr Peter Adefuye should be blamed for whatever happened to the laboratory staff because of their refusal to provide us with sufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that we needed to have as health workers having direct dealing with the samples of COVID-19 patients.”
“When they started bringing the samples of Covid-19 patients to us last month, the Director of Medical Laboratory Services Department wrote letter to the management demanding for those things to be put in place so that in the course of caring for others, we will also not be jeopardising our lives but the management did nothing.”
“They are always quick to say there is no money, yet we know that we are generating money for the government.”
“The management of the hospital were equally told to get a separate laboratory for COVID-19 test just as it was done during the time of Ebola but this they also turned down.”
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