Ogun ‘managing 300 cases’ as home-care

From Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta

Ogun State Government on Thursday revealed that there are 300 COVID-19 cases being managed under a home-care arrangement.

It added that 400 other patients have been discharged.

Commissioner of Health Dr. Yomi Coker said the decision to resort to the home-care basis for the affected patients was predicated on the realisation that they were found to be either asymptomatic or having mild diseases.

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According to her, the arrangement also conformed to the directive of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) regarding asymptomatic patients or those with mild symptoms.

Coker spoke to reporters in Oke-Mosan Governor’s Office, Abeokuta, when a delegation of  Lee Group of Companies led by the General Manager, Mr. Philip Seng, donated millions of naira worth of surgical facemasks to the Ogun State Government to assist the state in its battle against the novel COVID-19 pandemic.

The items were received by Deputy Governor Noimot Oyedele-Salako.

The commissioner noted that the state has just seven patients at its isolation centre presently and that they were cases requiring “oxygen or requiring ventilation”.

Mrs. Oyedele-Salako assured that the donated items would be used judiciously to defeat the pandemic in Ogun and commended the company for its support.