4 LUTH Doctors Now On Isolation Over Death Of Coronavirus Patient Who Lied

Joseph Akinrinade

It was a sad moment in Lagos University Teaching Hospital yesterday after the death of first Coronavirus patient in Lagos.

According to the source, the patient and his family gave doctors wrong medical reports. The man said he had only fever and tiredness not knowing that he had Coronavirus.

The man 55, unfortunately he also had renal failure and diabetes plus he just returned from Netherland with the virus. He kept this hidden and when he started showing symptoms he went to LUTH knowing well that he has Corona virus and he should report to Yaba instead.

From Twitter handle of Dr.Olufunmilayo;
A man came to LUTH Lagos, said he had only fever/tiredness.

But he had cough and just came back from Europe- but family hid that information. He died yesterday of Coronavirus.

Many doctors and nurses exposed.

Pls DO NOT LIE when you go to hospitals. That lie can get people killed.

4 doctors in LUTH Lagos have gone into isolation as we speak.

They were exposed to a patient in the accident and emergency room whose family has lied about his symptoms and hid the fact that he just came back from Europe.

Doctors were exposed.
Nurses were exposed.
Cleaners were exposed.
Many innocent health workers were exposed to the man.

Safe precautions were not taken because nobody knew early enough that this was potential Coronavirus.

This happened at the Accident and Emergency Unit of LUTH in Lagos. And this patient was put in the same space as many other patients.

Just imagine the same nurse or doctor that attended to him attended to other people there.

The virus may have been transferred.
This is evil.

Pls don’t lie at hospital.
Lies can kill health workers.

If your family is a health worker,
Pls pray for them.

The death of this lier brings Coronavirus death toll to 4 in Nigeria.

Native Reporters

Hmmmmmmmmm

Knowing full well that we are in the era of coronavirus, the health workers shouldn't have taken chances. They should take every case (regarding fever and cough) as (that of) coronavirus unless proven otherwise in the lab.

the useless family members should all be shot at close range by the military. what kind of nonsense is this

Ok

A selfish and wicked behaviour from the victim and his family.

donphilopus:
Knowing full well that we are in the era of coronavirus, the health workers shouldn't have taken chances. They should take every case (regarding cold and cough) as (that of) coronavirus unless proven otherwise in the lab.

Theoretically true online
Real life is very different

His family should be prosecuted!

WTF

the family members are the real enemies of Nigeria.. they should all be arrested to face manslaughter charges

Which kind live be dis

But the doctors shouldn't have taken any chances.

so sad
well
I won't say a word

Those people saying, Dr/nurses could have taken precautions are not serious. That patient could have informed them of his travel Hx, and actual complaints. From there, the medical officer on duty will decides on what to do; Referral to isolation center and minimize indirect contacts between caregiver and the patient.

We are enemy of ourselves

these are the retarded psychos am talking about. All returnees should be quarantined by the govt whether they like it or not.

Very bad

If Buhari had closed the borders

This won't have happened...

Buhari is a failure

bigiyaro:
these are the retarded psychos am talking about. All returnees should be quarantined by the govt whether they like it or not.

Why are your boaders still open

Other countries have closed shop long ago

Do you have a government?

ZombiePUNISHER:

Why are your boaders still open
Other countries have closed shop long ago
Do you have a government?

pls what is "boaders"

This is a common problem with patients, that's why as a Dr you are trained to work like a detective in most cases, you don't completely swallow patients info, you rely on your sixth sense to decipher possible lies, especially at a time like this, every fever and cough is a potential suspect!

This patients family should be punished to serve as a lesson to others.

Commonsense99:

This is a common problem with patients, that's why as a Dr you are trained to work like a detective in most cases, you don't completely swallow patients info, you rely on your sixth sense to decipher possible lies, especially at a time like this, every fever and cough is a potential suspect!

This patients family should be punished to serve as a lesson to others.

Some patients can lie even in emergency situations. I wonder if it's a culture in this part of the world.

Practically, the doctor may not have all the time interrogating one lying patient in the A&E while having many other patients waiting to be attended to or even more critical cases presenting to the A&E.
Also, very likely, as it's the case in most facilities in Nigeria, they may have been short-staffed in the A&E.

Of course, in the process of admission to a medical ward, other health workers would come in close contact with the patient.

They need to arrest his family members.

how the man take pass airport/boarder if the man come from Netherlands with CoronaVirus?