COVID-19: FG Working On Building More Isolation Centres
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government is working to develop more isolation centres following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The Minister revealed this on Friday in a press conference. While noting that every country is scrambling to build isolation centres, he said attention is being put on adding more isolation centres to Lagos and Abuja.
“For COVID-19, every country is scrambling to build isolation centres. China built its own thousand-bed centre in 10 days. That’s them.
“Every country is scrambling for that and we are also doing our own part. We have our own strategies to increase beds and also to sometimes improvise if need be. There is a standard isolation centre going on in Gwagwadala.
“There is one already in Lagos, a very sound one, which was inherited from the Ebola virus epidemic. They are very stable.”
“There are other strategies we are immediately working upon to develop isolation centres if the need arises.
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Ehanire further revealed that the Government is seriously working and telling the teaching hospitals to immediately make wards available if the need arises.
