Adebisi Onanuga and Omolola Afolabi
Nicholas Hospital, a highbrow hospital on Lagos Island has been closed down.
The hospital was shut on Monday due to its exposure to the deadly COVID-19.
The clinical director, Ebun Bamgboye, in a statement dated April 20, said the hospital’s decision was as a result of “exposure to COVID-19”.
The statement said the management decided on the shutdown after two of its nurses and a very senior staff member tested positive for COVID-19 from exposure to a patient.
Already the management has already decontaminated the hospital located on Lagos Island and shut it down for two weeks.
The hospital also said it has contacted the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) while its facility has been decontaminated by the Lagos State government.
“The safety of all our staff and patients is of paramount importance to us. As such, we are complying with the directive of the HEFAMAA (Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency) to suspend our services for 2 weeks starting Saturday April 18, 2020 to Saturday May 2, 2020,” the statement said.
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