It is hard to avoid misinformation about the pandemic but it can be managed. People in Nigeria have been lied to – first about 5G and a lot more about the new coronavirus. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria is now ver 3000 and many COVID-19 patients are running away and going into hiding.
That is not as disturbing as the number that are hiding at home and refusing to call the toll-free lines.
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Treating COVID-19 at home is safe until it isn’t. If the worst stage of the virus, pneumonia hits, a patient could die. That is the stage that requires going to the hospital and going into a respirator.
Why are COVID-19 patients running away in Nigeria?
What happens at COVID-19 testing centres and hospitals in Nigeria and why are patients running?
When a person shows symptoms that look like COVID-19 ones, it isn’t completely a bad idea to stay home and take care of the symptoms. After all, the hospitals are trying to avoid overcrowding. However, the dangers to it are more than can be said including infecting family members.
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Then laboratory staff and the NCDC will come and take the patient and get samples. If the result returns positive, the patient will begin receiving supportive treatments at designated hospitals.
If the patient tests positive for pneumonia, it could mean going into the intensive care unit which is not so pretty. It means a patient’s oxygen levels are low and will require ventilators to supply oxygen to the lungs. That is mostly all that happens.
After locating some of the missing patients in Nigeria, one claims to be concerned about infecting other which is rather ironic. Others, however, complained of the condition of living in the hospitals and some have died hiding at home.
More so, the press has been informed that people who are suspected to have the virus are told to pay 35 thousand Naira for a test.
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says the claim is false and should be disregard.
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