The State governor should have investigated properly prior to denying the index case. That way you work smartly to save lives. You can't deny Coronavirus, once there it's already there and must manifest

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his mumu followers nko?

midolian:
E get as e be o..


For over a week now, even before the death of the patient, there was this news going round like a rumour that the man had the virus..but Unilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) and the useless ever reactive state Government came out to debunk it!


Now see where we are!

They debunked the news was the problem. Most health workers in UITH are now exposed !!

more record to come in Kwara !!

Na lie

There we go again

And to think that the police and the media have been making it look like people are not obeying the stay at home.

Another way to score cheap. In case it finally blows up...the innocent people will now be blamed for 'allowing' the virus get into the state. Can you imagine that!

The honourable thing is for the government to go public, apologise to the people for endangering their lives. Yes, i said the people because, while the 'arguments' were going on whether the patient was a covid19 victim or not, they made everybody believe all was normal.

Now, imagine how many people,(especially those who attended the burial, which we know are mostly the 'oipoloi'), have been going about with a false sense of safety, freely distributing the virus.

Imagine those who had a close contact with that woman in the name of 'condolence' visit...and you know how such closeness can be in Africa...

What about the nurses and doctors who were exposed to that virus? They obviously went home 'after the day's work' and their family members joyfully welcomed them back... Such wickedness from those who hide it and are still trying frantically to hide it. People have no conscience!

We shouldn't forget the man who drove the ambulance with a covid19 corpse while believing the man died of food poisoning. After all, that was what the 'Oga' made him believe.

The good Muslims who prepared the body for a good Muslim burial...who washed the body according to Islamic rite. Some probably, while performing the rite, must have wiped sweat off their face trying to dry it from the effect of the scorching heat.

Imagine if this had not been exposed or that the reporters had succumbed to the bullies who tried to silence them...it would have been a free for all distribution of virus in Kwara state. Man inhumanity to man. I wonder how such people sleep at night!

The government must bring the said professor and the MD of that hospital to face the music! Those are mean humans who have used their exalted positions to endanger many people and ruin the state as a whole.

If this were to be an advanced country, those mean humans should be 'quarantined' behind bars now with their faculties withdrawn...they never deserved it in the first place.

I urge the state governor to see that this case don't tarnish the name and trust he had earned from the people.


However, the government is not completely free from the blame. Infact, the government failed the people woefully.

It was said that the victim was rushed to the specialist hospital at Sobi, which was supposed to be the 'isolation' centre,(at least, people were made to believe), but it was under lock.

The next option was the teaching hospital and no one can blame the family for that. If the isolation centre was opened, it would have been a different story. Now, see what bureaucracy has caused.

As the Pronouncement of a lockdown was made, the people of the state were deafened by shouts of 'the state government is ready!’ over the media but unknown to the people of the state, it was 'AUDIO.'

The people deserve an unreserved apology for the recklessness of all the parties involved in this. I beg the governor not to let this be swept under the carpets. The people believe in his integrity and are watching to see how it goes.

They are already KWARATINE

All state want to collect there own loot share sha

Vyolet:
The news has been going round since last week but they keep denying it.
I do hope the professor of medicine(Peofessor Kazeem Alakija Salami who shielded the patient and gave him home treatment will be brought to book, as well as the CMD of UITH.
May God punish everyone involved in the cover up. They ended up exposing doctors, nurses and a thousand others.

The people of Offa especially are the most exposed because the corpse of the index case was taken to Offa for burial and lots of people went to sympathise with the family.

Heeeee, problem dey ooo.
They no know say, if you hear ab.....them never finish the other letters......road..... you pick race.
Ah, sympathizers

And they said people will come out of lock down after 2 weeks

After 2 weeks of what?

Las Las Kwara state Don hamma, everything in 9ja has been politicised, many will make money from this Pandemic in 9ja. green white green, no be small thing ooo

Add the dead man in absentia. 3 cases

The Grand Coronavirus Cover-Up In Kwara By 'Fisayo Soyombo

It appears this committee and some powerful forces at UITH are more concerned about painting Kwara as COVID-negative than enabling an environment for isolation and testing, so that contact tracing can commence in earnest if a positive case does surface and so that everyone around can take necessary precautions.

BY 'FISAYO SOYOMBOAPR 06, 2020

If you weren’t pressing away your phones or ogling the fine boys or girls during Logic classes in school, you would easily have noticed the grand cover-up of the circumstances of the death of Alhaji Muideen Obanimomo, a prominent Offa son, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Oh, I forgot to add: if you’re not partisan, if you don’t believe Coronavirus is a death sentence and if you appreciate the importance of testing and contact tracing to our chances of overcoming this pandemic.

There are things that everyone agrees with, like Obanimomo’s arrival at the hospital on Wednesday and dying overnight, the suspicious background work that influenced the preferential medical attention he received at the hospital, the speed-of-light evacuation of his corpse from the hospital on Thursday and the failure to establish suspicions of COVID-19 up till his death. But that’s pretty much where the consensus ends. Almost everything else is contentious.

For example, while the state government claims the death was due to "respiratory illness”, the hospital says it was from "food poisoning". Also, all of the Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19, the UITH management, the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) and the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) say the deceased was first brought into the hospital on Wednesday night. Actually, that is not true. Since flying into the country on March 20 and relocating to Ilorin days later to self-isolate, Obanimomo first set foot on UITH on Sunday March 29, flanked by his wife, who was bogged down by — guess what — headache. First hint: a successful, widely-travelled accountant presenting his wife at a teaching hospital for headache is such an anomaly.

One more person who knew is Professor Kazeem Alakija Salami, otherwise called Professor AbdulSalam, the professor the UITH authorities are afraid to name despite dubbing his conduct “highly unethical”. Obanimomo briefly went into self-isolation in Lagos, sending his children away to relatives, before travelling to Ilorin to continue on the advice of Professor AbdulSalam, his ally whom the UITH management describes as his “relative”. Even a roadside mechanic knows that nobody shows up at a teaching hospital for headache; the deceased only took his wife there because they both knew the may have been exposed to the virus. First window to test the wife but it was passed up.

By Wednesday evening, the 13th day of isolation when the deceased became uncomfortable, they didn’t first send him to UITH. What a miracle that is, because these were the same people who wanted to treat headache at a teaching hospital. Instead, Professor AbdulSalam sent him to the Sobi Specialist Hospital — that hospital supposedly designed by the state government for isolating COVID-19 cases. Well, Sobi was under lock and key, not even open for operations — because the Kwara State government isn’t ready for the virus. Now, why would a professor of medicine waste his time sending a patient to Sobi if he didn’t have valid COVOD-19 suspicions? And, why, after sending such patient to a non-functioning isolation centre, would that professor make no attempt to test the patient?

From Sobi, he was moved to UITH, which has its own isolation centre; that’s where he should have been sent to, but Professor AbdulSalam used his influence to convince management to attend to Obanimomo at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) ward, where he “received VIP treatment”. Some of those who saw Obanimomo said he soon started showing “very strong COVID-19 symptoms”; he died less than an hour after. By this stage, he still hadn’t been tested. That’s really grave, because Professor AbdulSalam is not just a doctor, he is a teacher of respiratory medicine and HIV medicine, with research interest in infectious and non-infectious pulmonary diseases and core interest in tuberculosis, obstructive airways diseases and HIV/AIDS. A doctor of this calibre would have gotten Obanimomo tested if he genuinely wanted to. The failure to test Obanimomo for COVID-19 until his death and afterwards has cover-up written all over it.

In its comments about Obanimomo’s death, the Medical Advisory Committee of UITH made some admissions that further implicate the hospital. It claimed that after the death, the hospital received “several anonymous calls disclosing information of recent travels by the patient and his wife to the UK”. Who were these anonymous callers? How did they get the hospital’s number? A teaching hospital received such important calls and made no effort to document the informants, if just to be contacted for follow-up information? The hospital admitted that the corpse was “immediately released” for burial according to Islamic rights; how did these anonymous callers get wind of the travel details and the contact of the hospital all in the few hours of the corpse’s stay at the hospital?

The committee said: “Following the patient’s death and release of his corpse to the managing professor for immediate burial in accordance with Islamic rites, the hospital management received several anonymous calls disclosing information of recent travels by the patient and his wife to UK and having been on self-isolation on arrival to Ilorin prior to presentation at A&E.” This means the management is claiming that the corpse had already been released before they got information it may have been a suspected coronavirus case. This also means no COVID-19 test was conducted on the deceased, since corpse had been released before they knew the truth at all. Coup de grâce! As a matter of fact, it is not true that the hospital became aware of the patient’s travel history; the hospital had known since Sunday — four clear days before the death!

One other red flag. If the hospital is indeed convinced Obanimomo died of food poisoning, why did it prevent the ambulance that evacuated the corpse from reentering the hospital premises? Why were the doctors, nurses and pharmacists who potentially had contact with him isolated and placed on chloroquine prophylaxis? I mean, you didn’t just isolate them; you placed them on drugs! And why was the medical emergency shut down and fumigated? It’s not Coronavirus, right?

The state government claims to have collected samples from the “wife of the deceased and four others”. If these tests end up negative, this wouldn’t have absolved both the state and the hospital from the cover-up. I personally know at least one staff member of the hospital who came in contact with the deceased and hasn’t had samples taken. And I know, too, that the closest persons to the diseased knew his travel history and therefore observed necessary precautions around him. So, these four samples, whose are they? Hopefully not the children of the deceased, who were shielded from their father during the isolation.

Finally — and this is the most important sentence of this piece — why weren’t the deceased’s samples taken, even in the 45 minutes preceding his death when he displayed strong COVID symptoms? Why wasn’t a COVID-19 status-identifying post-mortem not conducted on the deceased? The state government’s social media defenders have been saying the deceased’s samples were collected. How were they collected if the hospital knew it was probably a COVID-19 case only after the body had already been sent for burial? Were they collected after burial?

The hospital admitted that the managing professor behaved in a “HIGHLY UNETHICAL” way by concealing the deceased’s travel history from the frontline medical personnel at first contact in the A&E. What’s going to happen to him — for potentially endangering staff and other patients at the hospital’s A&E?

The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 is keen to announce to every listening hear that there is there no case of the virus in the state. Quite worrying, considering that they made no effort to test someone who exhibited symptoms and at least presented himself at their ghostly isolation centre. It appears this committee and some powerful forces at UITH are more concerned about painting Kwara as COVID-negative than enabling an environment for isolation and testing, so that contact tracing can commence in earnest if a positive case does surface and so that everyone around can take necessary precautions. The Kwara example is proof many still see COVID as a death sentence, which isn’t true considering the numerous success stories emananting from Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos. Without transparency, we won’t defeat this pandemic in good time.

Soyombo, former Editor of the TheCable, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting and SaharaReporters, tweets @fisayosoyombo

The alfas who washed his corpse of the index case in offa don carry am too o. Kai

Uh oh... not my fav Kwara...

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

Indeed it is. And you know what I find most amazing: nobody will remember the deceit. They will swallow the next garbage without thinking about the results from last time...

As an example, none of our "prophets" is being castigated for getting their April 27 prophesy wrong... TB Joshua for one is still misleading himself and others.

midolian:
E get as e be o..


For over a week now, even before the death of the patient, there was this news going round like a rumour that the man had the virus..but Unilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) and the useless ever reactive state Government came out to debunk it!


Now see where we are!

The Grand Coronavirus Cover-Up In Kwara By 'Fisayo Soyombo

It appears this committee and some powerful forces at UITH are more concerned about painting Kwara as COVID-negative than enabling an environment for isolation and testing, so that contact tracing can commence in earnest if a positive case does surface and so that everyone around can take necessary precautions.

BY 'FISAYO SOYOMBOAPR 06, 2020

If you weren’t pressing away your phones or ogling the fine boys or girls during Logic classes in school, you would easily have noticed the grand cover-up of the circumstances of the death of Alhaji Muideen Obanimomo, a prominent Offa son, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Oh, I forgot to add: if you’re not partisan, if you don’t believe Coronavirus is a death sentence and if you appreciate the importance of testing and contact tracing to our chances of overcoming this pandemic.

There are things that everyone agrees with, like Obanimomo’s arrival at the hospital on Wednesday and dying overnight, the suspicious background work that influenced the preferential medical attention he received at the hospital, the speed-of-light evacuation of his corpse from the hospital on Thursday and the failure to establish suspicions of COVID-19 up till his death. But that’s pretty much where the consensus ends. Almost everything else is contentious.

For example, while the state government claims the death was due to "respiratory illness”, the hospital says it was from "food poisoning". Also, all of the Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19, the UITH management, the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) and the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) say the deceased was first brought into the hospital on Wednesday night. Actually, that is not true. Since flying into the country on March 20 and relocating to Ilorin days later to self-isolate, Obanimomo first set foot on UITH on Sunday March 29, flanked by his wife, who was bogged down by — guess what — headache. First hint: a successful, widely-travelled accountant presenting his wife at a teaching hospital for headache is such an anomaly.

One more person who knew is Professor Kazeem Alakija Salami, otherwise called Professor AbdulSalam, the professor the UITH authorities are afraid to name despite dubbing his conduct “highly unethical”. Obanimomo briefly went into self-isolation in Lagos, sending his children away to relatives, before travelling to Ilorin to continue on the advice of Professor AbdulSalam, his ally whom the UITH management describes as his “relative”. Even a roadside mechanic knows that nobody shows up at a teaching hospital for headache; the deceased only took his wife there because they both knew the may have been exposed to the virus. First window to test the wife but it was passed up.

By Wednesday evening, the 13th day of isolation when the deceased became uncomfortable, they didn’t first send him to UITH. What a miracle that is, because these were the same people who wanted to treat headache at a teaching hospital. Instead, Professor AbdulSalam sent him to the Sobi Specialist Hospital — that hospital supposedly designed by the state government for isolating COVID-19 cases. Well, Sobi was under lock and key, not even open for operations — because the Kwara State government isn’t ready for the virus. Now, why would a professor of medicine waste his time sending a patient to Sobi if he didn’t have valid COVOD-19 suspicions? And, why, after sending such patient to a non-functioning isolation centre, would that professor make no attempt to test the patient?

From Sobi, he was moved to UITH, which has its own isolation centre; that’s where he should have been sent to, but Professor AbdulSalam used his influence to convince management to attend to Obanimomo at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) ward, where he “received VIP treatment”. Some of those who saw Obanimomo said he soon started showing “very strong COVID-19 symptoms”; he died less than an hour after. By this stage, he still hadn’t been tested. That’s really grave, because Professor AbdulSalam is not just a doctor, he is a teacher of respiratory medicine and HIV medicine, with research interest in infectious and non-infectious pulmonary diseases and core interest in tuberculosis, obstructive airways diseases and HIV/AIDS. A doctor of this calibre would have gotten Obanimomo tested if he genuinely wanted to. The failure to test Obanimomo for COVID-19 until his death and afterwards has cover-up written all over it.

In its comments about Obanimomo’s death, the Medical Advisory Committee of UITH made some admissions that further implicate the hospital. It claimed that after the death, the hospital received “several anonymous calls disclosing information of recent travels by the patient and his wife to the UK”. Who were these anonymous callers? How did they get the hospital’s number? A teaching hospital received such important calls and made no effort to document the informants, if just to be contacted for follow-up information? The hospital admitted that the corpse was “immediately released” for burial according to Islamic rights; how did these anonymous callers get wind of the travel details and the contact of the hospital all in the few hours of the corpse’s stay at the hospital?

The committee said: “Following the patient’s death and release of his corpse to the managing professor for immediate burial in accordance with Islamic rites, the hospital management received several anonymous calls disclosing information of recent travels by the patient and his wife to UK and having been on self-isolation on arrival to Ilorin prior to presentation at A&E.” This means the management is claiming that the corpse had already been released before they got information it may have been a suspected coronavirus case. This also means no COVID-19 test was conducted on the deceased, since corpse had been released before they knew the truth at all. Coup de grâce! As a matter of fact, it is not true that the hospital became aware of the patient’s travel history; the hospital had known since Sunday — four clear days before the death!

One other red flag. If the hospital is indeed convinced Obanimomo died of food poisoning, why did it prevent the ambulance that evacuated the corpse from reentering the hospital premises? Why were the doctors, nurses and pharmacists who potentially had contact with him isolated and placed on chloroquine prophylaxis? I mean, you didn’t just isolate them; you placed them on drugs! And why was the medical emergency shut down and fumigated? It’s not Coronavirus, right?

The state government claims to have collected samples from the “wife of the deceased and four others”. If these tests end up negative, this wouldn’t have absolved both the state and the hospital from the cover-up. I personally know at least one staff member of the hospital who came in contact with the deceased and hasn’t had samples taken. And I know, too, that the closest persons to the diseased knew his travel history and therefore observed necessary precautions around him. So, these four samples, whose are they? Hopefully not the children of the deceased, who were shielded from their father during the isolation.

Finally — and this is the most important sentence of this piece — why weren’t the deceased’s samples taken, even in the 45 minutes preceding his death when he displayed strong COVID symptoms? Why wasn’t a COVID-19 status-identifying post-mortem not conducted on the deceased? The state government’s social media defenders have been saying the deceased’s samples were collected. How were they collected if the hospital knew it was probably a COVID-19 case only after the body had already been sent for burial? Were they collected after burial?

The hospital admitted that the managing professor behaved in a “HIGHLY UNETHICAL” way by concealing the deceased’s travel history from the frontline medical personnel at first contact in the A&E. What’s going to happen to him — for potentially endangering staff and other patients at the hospital’s A&E?

The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 is keen to announce to every listening hear that there is there no case of the virus in the state. Quite worrying, considering that they made no effort to test someone who exhibited symptoms and at least presented himself at their ghostly isolation centre. It appears this committee and some powerful forces at UITH are more concerned about painting Kwara as COVID-negative than enabling an environment for isolation and testing, so that contact tracing can commence in earnest if a positive case does surface and so that everyone around can take necessary precautions. The Kwara example is proof many still see COVID as a death sentence, which isn’t true considering the numerous success stories emananting from Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos. Without transparency, we won’t defeat this pandemic in good time.

Soyombo, former Editor of the TheCable, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting and SaharaReporters, tweets @fisayosoyombo

Sad, my state �

The number of people that will test positive in that state will be higher than lagos after one week that the indext case died they deny it now that the wife test positive they admitted that there was such case. bad government is worst than cancer. Enugu is in the hand of God

Me wey wan been run go sidon dere...so na to chill for where me dey b dat

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

Typical of them.
Even the non-Alfas on Nairaland were claiming that the virus cannot infect black people some weeks back.
Now, they have turned their attention to 5G.

But the state government should be blamed for pretending the disease is not in the state when they should
have known better.

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

Oponu! it was detected in Offa town not in ilorin

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

Bro na so this Illiterate Ilorin people dey laugh anyone wen wear face mask or glove o. Me nor dey send them sha. Cant come and be breading like a wounded hippopotamus

dam2000:
All state want to collect there own loot share sha

Shut up and learn to read.

E don happen. Just saw a thread were people gather to collect food items from Saraki foundation. I hope the infected person is not there, else na real gobe be that o.

This could have been avoided if the UK returnee had gone on self isolation.

Now we are in a deep mess as a lot of family members, friends, colleagues and UITH medical team would have socialize with the patient/deceased unconsciously.

Our nonchalant attitude and self discipline led us to this.

How long are going to obey simple instructions.

stevmatt15:
And they said people will come out of lock down after 2 weeks

After 2 weeks of what?

Where exactly is the lockdown?

Ojukwucriminal:
On behalf of all Muslims of the igbo descent, I sympathize with the good people of kwara state for their travails at the moment. I want to assure them that we will support them in this trying time because their grief is our grief and their travails our travails.

Always use your brain. How do know their religions .

Poor documentation.
The report should be 3 corona virus cases in Kwara;
2 isolated
1 dead

topstone4:
And to think some Ilorin Alfas went about deceiving the Muslims there that covid-19 will never enter Ilorin because the town is next to aljanah. .

And to think the illiterate market women there swallowed it up hook line and sinker to the extent of abusing and taunting anyone that wears face mask.

Chai! Illiteracy is a disease.

My girlfriend also argued with me. Saying Ilorin is next to whatever they call it.

Stay safe everybody