A Medical Practitioner in Ogun State Teaching Hospital has reiterated how they have been given face mask made up of tissue paper to combat COVID-19 emergency patients.
The Doctor who wants to be anonymous said,
"Our lives are at risk because we are not being provided with the minimum requirement for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) which is the face masks and gloves."
"At some point we were given an improvised face mask which was made of tissue paper carefully folded and held with pins at the edges, and rubber bands used as the arms of the facemask."
Tell me how this would protect the health care workers at the Frontline from contracting the virus."
Tell me how this would protect the health care workers at the Frontline from contracting the virus."
Even developed countries where health workers have the full PPE being used still records health workers contacting this deadly disease despite using the full PPE."
Italy has recorded over 100 deaths of doctors in Frontline. Other places affected are US, UK and Spain.
What is our fate without PPE? This is like facing Boko Haram without live ammunition. Indirect death sentence is the outcome," he said.
The worst of it was that it came with a threat the whoever refuses the tissue paper facemask, should have his/her written down-- equivalent to a court martial for soldier running from battle front due to paucity of live ammunitions.
OOUTH is the Epicenter for isolation of suspected and confirmed cases of Coronavirus patients.
As at today there are no facemasks, hand sanitizers and gloves specially provided for doctors attending to patient in the emergency and the ward.
Italy has recorded over 100 deaths of doctors in Frontline. Other places affected are US, UK and Spain.
What is our fate without PPE? This is like facing Boko Haram without live ammunition. Indirect death sentence is the outcome," he said.
The worst of it was that it came with a threat the whoever refuses the tissue paper facemask, should have his/her written down-- equivalent to a court martial for soldier running from battle front due to paucity of live ammunitions.
OOUTH is the Epicenter for isolation of suspected and confirmed cases of Coronavirus patients.
As at today there are no facemasks, hand sanitizers and gloves specially provided for doctors attending to patient in the emergency and the ward.
"The importance of these materials can not be overemphasized, we are left to face patients without facemasks being provided."
What the CMD said is that facemasks is now Gold so they can't provide it.
The hospital doesn't have the interest of her doctors and nurses and other health workers on her mind.
"Our lives are at risk, help us."
Whereas the Lagos state government has just increased the hazard allowance of health workers in the state by 400 percent.
In a circular seen by Newsmen yesterday, Hakeem Muri-Okuno, head of service in the state, said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor, approved the increment of the health workers’ hazard allowance from N5,000 to N25, 000.
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Hmmmn. What a risk
It's sad how bad our health System has become. One can only be hopeful that in the coming years we would have learnt from the covid-19 experience and begin to do things right.
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