The chairman of the Private Clinic Association in Oyo State, Dr. Oladipo, has revealed that the state does not have any isolation centre.
Oladipo, who revealed this in a live phone-in interview on Fresh FM COVID-19 situation programme earlier today stated that the state only have treatment centres for COVID-19.
According to him,”There should be difference between isolation centre and treatment centre. Isolation centre should be a centre where we keep suspected cases, it should in form of hotels where every case would be in a room conveniently because those are suspected cases and some of them would turn out negative, some would be positive.
“What we have presently are treatment centers that will take COVID-19 positive cases.”
He also stated that despite the fact that sixty percent of people in the state patronize private clinics, they don’t have a single member or representative on the COVID-19 taskforce in the state.
He, however, stated that despite the fact that they have no member on the taskforce in the state, he works informally with members of the taskforce who reach out to him for support when they have any issue.
Speaking on the new regulation by the state government that it is compulsory for all private clinics in the state to ensure any patient that show COVID-19 symptoms undergo a COVID-19 test, he said, “These are things we all knew before they rolled it out and these are the things we called Infection Prevention and Control.
“There is not private hospital that will deliberately go out to treat COVID-19 patient. What people get wrong is this, even the case you mentioned, it has not been confirmed whether it is COVID-19 or not. COVID-19 presents symptoms like malaria, like typhod, and all sort of things, these private hospital owners are frontliners because about 60 to 70 percent of people patronize private hospitals in our community.
“When they come to hospitals and they complain, you can’t reject them.”
He also noted that majority of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic.
