Adefioye Iyunade
A wave of mass infections has hit the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) Sagamu with 20 members of staff testing positive for coronavirus as at Friday.
The hospital shut its main medical laboratory unit after 14 out of 16 more workers in the laboratory tested positive. This is said to be the second wave of mass infection at the health facility.
One of the workers reportedly infected three members of his family, prompting the management to shut the Laboratory unit.
This brings the total number of infected staff to 34, including a family of four; the wife of one of the lab workers and his three children.
Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker said the laboratory has been shut for two weeks though he declared that the statistics of affected laboratory workers remained a private affair.
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However, a source said the workers had been going for COVID-19 test since last Friday, following the death of one of them while some were already ill and manifesting symptoms associated with COVID-19.
He explained that while the confirmation for the COVID-19 test is done at the molecular laboratory, other baseline routine tests of confirmed cases such as sputum, blood, and urine test are done in the main laboratory.
Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Dr. Peter Adefuye, said that the state government is committed to the fight against COVID-19, adding that it had been providing all necessary things to the hospital without leaving any stone unturned.
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