By Ayo Kamaldeen

Since the emergence of the first COVID-19 case in Kwara State some four/five days ago, social media advocates and pseudo investigative journalists have taken over the narrative; drummed it into our ears how the sad case had been mismanaged, and even added their imperial judgment on whose head(s) must be sacrificed for the professional misdemeanor that has endangered our collective health.

Now emotions are high and our angers are unknowingly being manipulated to achieve some ends that might be at variance with promoting justice on the sad case. Two personalities are labeled in the unfortunate scenario, namely Professor Salami, a friend and supposed personal physician to the diseased case; and Professor Yusuff, the chief medical director of the teaching hospital where the diseased case was admitted and died some 45 minutes after being admitted.

Without minding the period of the first contact between the CMD and its aftermath, the social media commentators adjudged him an accomplice and pronounced his sack. And this they called journalism! They even accused the state government of being an accomplice, only they couldn’t rule that the governor be impeached. Sad commentary, bad journalism!

Here is the narrative that is being twisted by the social media crusaders.

On April 1, 2020, the diseased case, Alhaji Muideen Obanimomo, was brought to the Accident and Emergency unit of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) by Professor Salami (Kazeem Alakija Salami) who claimed to be a relative of the deceased. He told the doctors on duty that his patient had complications from food poisoning. He never told the doctors about the patient’s travel history or the truth about his ailment. Since the doctors were not magicians, they treated the patient based on the information provided. Unfortunately, the patient died in the early hours of April 2, 2020. Quite pathetic! A truthful disclosure and appropriate diagnosis might have been able to save the patient’s life. What was Prof. Salami thinking? Did he have some information he didn’t want the public to know; even his medical colleagues?

The corpse of the diseased case was released to Prof. Salami, possibly at his prompting to save his face and prevent the impending backlash. Only he could explain why he decided to conceal the information about diseased status, and hurriedly secured the release of the corpse for burial, even when everyone knew that corpses of COVID-19 cases were buried by government and not by the family. It was only after the release of the corpse that information filtered in through anonymous callers that the patient might be a COVID suspect case, having recently returned from UK with his wife. The management of the hospital, furious at the embarrassment, had described the behavior of the senior doctor as “reckless, unprofessional, and highly unethical.”

Immediately it was discovered that the diseased patient might be a suspected COVID-19 case, the hospital took the following measures: (a
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their recklessness has put the entire offa in danger now,who know how many people has been infected?those who went to bury the copse,the who bathed the copse,those who have had contact with the wife and son, this is pure wickedness because the deceased was a public figure and a lot of people attended his burial thousands of people would have had contact with those who went to his burial.