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Lagos inaugurates Covid-19 oxygen therapy centre
By Modupe Shodeinde
A permanent Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre has been inaugurated in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, to improve swift response to critical COVID-19 cases in the community.
Governor Sanwo-Olu who was represented by the commissioner for Health, at the inauguration said the deployment was spurred by the need to manage severe-to-critical COVID-19 patients.
He said, “One of the strategies adopted in response to the recent increase in COVID-19 infections is the provision of the COVID-19 Permanent Sample Collection Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre in 10 local government areas across Lagos to support patients with oxygen before they are transferred to care centres.”
He further added that the project was essential to prepare against the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially at this period when the state is recording an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and people requiring urgent oxygen therapy.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, during a media briefing on the update of the second wave of COVID-19 in Lagos, on Monday, had disclosed that the state would deploy 10 oxygen therapy centres in high burden local government areas in the state.
He said the centres were sited at the Mother and Child Centre, Eti-Osa; General Hospital, Alimosho; General Hospital, Isolo; Aguda Primary Healthcare Centre, Surulere; and General Hospital, Gbagada.
He listed others as Mother and Child Centre, Ifako Ijaiye; Ibeju-Lekki Primary Healthcare Centre; General Hospital, Apapa; Odi-Olowo Primary Healthcare Centre, Mushin; and Amuwo-Odofin Mother and Child Centre.
Abayomi said that the oxygen centres at Mother and Child Centre, Eti-Osa; General Hospital, Alimosho; and General Hospital, Isolo were already completed, while the remaining seven would be completed in the next two weeks.
