squad03:


Well,
1.Covid is a retrospective diagnosis unless in advanced stages when its symptoms appear.
2.It's not a luminous virus and patients with it don't come with halos so the case of 'unrelated to covid' is unfathomable even for specialists in herbal medicine .The common sense thing for any healthcare professional to do is treat everyone as a potential carrier.
So oga should tell the people who received 10billion funds to make PPEs available.

We all understand 1. as being true but what is not acceptable/ideal is that doctors should treat EVERY patient as a carrier. Suppose evryone is a carrier, then nobody will receive treatment, not even medical examination because doctors and nurses can't risk their lives without PPEs (at least some people believe that occupational risks should be avoided by abandoning the occupation. I agree too]

P.S: May I remind you that victims of accidents requiring medical help won't be attended to as well because they are assumed to be carriers. A woman in labour wont't be attended to because she is too. How many more examples can be cited before people see the danger of not attending to ANY patient until they provide a COVID-19 test result?

danowena:
See this man that called himself a professor speaking like a layman. So doctors should examine patients critically before refering them for malaria tests as well? Professor, just incase you have forgotten, the tests are meant to either confirm or negate suspicion of an ailmemt. It is a vital part of the diagnosis process.
Despite the number of negative results in the US and Uk (as examples) did you hear them advise doctors to stop referring people for tests? I am glad you mentioned that some were postive. What if the doctors of those positive ones allowed them to roam about? Professor, take your time o o. This is not the time to say rubbish if you have nothing tangible to say. Don't risk the lives of people because you want media attention.
Your statement is grossly stupid and very irresponsible.

I dont care who YOU are but you goofed by using those words:will you teach your children to address issues with offensive words. You sef messed up jor.

photon3106:


No offence intended! I believe the declaration/statement is clear enough. In case it wasn't, consider a situation where someone who has severe difficulty in breathing and very weak probably due to an accident or termly illness and was rushed in to a nearby hospital for urgent healthcare. Would you as a doctor refuse treatment until you see a covid-19 test result? This is exactly what some unqualified doctors are doing this time.

A man bangs his head accidentally when he slipped off a wet floor and suffered severe headache and nose bleed. He was rushed to an hospital and the doctor was waiting for Covid-19 test result. How interesting!

did you read where "respiratory symptoms" was written? you don't really understand if you're not into something. if one presents with respiratory symptoms, how do you know he/she doesn't have corona to start with? you expose yourself with ppe and infect other staffs and patients who infect family and friends? You rule out the most critical by sending for tests and not unnecessary exposures. If ppe are available different case altogether

Joshuazedd:


did you read where "respiratory symptoms" was written? you don't really understand if you're not into something. if one presents with respiratory symptoms, how do you know he/she doesn't have corona to start with? you expose yourself with ppe and infect other staffs and patients who infect family and friends? You rule out the most critical by sending for tests and not unnecessary exposures. If ppe are available different case altogether

The only valid argument here is the unavailability of PPEs but saying every respiratory symptom is a supposed manifestation of the said virus is invalid. And yes, I do not speak of things I don't understand. Maybe you should do a little more research reading on respiratory tract symptoms then you'd discover that there are several symptoms associated with respiratory tract problems. The respiratory tract symptom induced by the presence of the virus isn't the same manifestation with one induced by cold or PT-cough. So someone dying due to exposure to cold should be left unattended to until he provides Covid 19 test because he has respiratory tract problem?