How We Have Successfully Treated Over 120 COVID-19 Patients -OAUTHC CMD

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC) Ile-Ife, Prof Victor Adetiloye, has disclosed that the institution has successfully managed 101-year-old woman with COVID-19.

Adetiloye made this known on Thursday, in Ile-Ife.

According to him, it has never happened in Nigeria that a coronavirus patient of that age survived the infection.

The CMD expressed that adults of any age with the following conditions: cancer, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, down syndrome, heart failure, coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathies are at high risk of severe illness from the virus.

He said the hospital had treated 120 COVID-19 patients without casualty since the second wave started till date.

On how the aged woman, (name withheld) was cured, the CMD explained that “this woman was admitted and treated at the Private hospital for malaria, but when the condition worsened, she was screened for COVID-19 and tested positive and she was later referred to our isolation centre.

“She was in a state of comma, placed on oxygen when she was admitted, but thank God for our professionals that successfully revived her.

“The woman was admitted on January 30 and discharged on February 10, which means she spent 11-day at the hospital and went home alive.

“If you see this aged mother, after discharged, she was so exited, singing, dancing and praying for the staff with her children because all hope has been lost on her,” he said.

He commended Federal Government, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Ministry of Health for their support and for producing the facilities and drugs needed for the patients.