The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) says it has placed four of its nurses on isolation, after their contact with a patient who died of coronavirus.
Prof. Tokunboh Fabamwo, LASUTH Chief Medical Director, made this known today in Lagos.
The hospital had earlier on Saturday confirmed the death of a patient who tested positive to coronavirus, saying the patient died at its Institute of Maternal and Child Health (Ayinke House), LASUTH.
Fabamwo said: “All the doctors took precautions when attending to the patient.
“When the woman was about to die and was gasping for breath, the nurses rushed to her and tried to do pulmonary resuscitation on her.
“They moved more closely to her. Though they were protected, we felt that because of that closeness, we should isolate them so that they won’t go home and be a risk to their families.”
He said the patient’s corpse had been evacuated with usual protocol, adding that her husband’s blood sample had been taken for COVID-19 test.
