Amidst wild spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic and fear of uncertainty, residents of Ringim in Jigawa state, northwest Nigeria were shocked to their marrows as one Mustafa Auwal, a suspected coronavirus patient was kept in isolation inside a mortuary at Ringim General Hospital for four days.
The suspected COVID-19 patient was a businessman trading between Ringim and Lagos who returned from Lagos and developed symptoms of the disease and went to the hospital for medical attention.
Mustafa Auwal said, “I’m a businessman shuttling between here Ringim and Lagos. I use to spend between 14 or 15 days there (Lagos) and came back home in every of my trip.
“This time around, I arrived Lagos and rain was showered on me and I feel some fever after I arrived my logging, I took some drugs and feels some relief. But due to the present situation of luck down in Lagos, I decided to come back home.
“When I arrived home (Ringim) the fever continues and I vomited. So I go to the hospital (Ringim General Hospital) for medical attention“.
‘’When I reached the hospital, I explained my problems and when they (hospital officials) heard that I was from Lagos, they said they suspected I may be coronavirus patient. I must go COVID-19 test to confirm.
‘’They firstly kept me in one place in the veranda of the hospital, they later clean another place and moved me there and kept me inside“.
“I realized that it was a room inside the hospital’s mortuary.
‘’They (hospital) took my samples and send to somewhere and later brought it back and said I’m COVID-19 negative and allow me to go back home“.
When contacted the Director Clinical Services of the l hospital, Azzaqilu Hussain said “we don’t have isolation center here in Ringim, we made temporary arrangements for incase a suspected is detected“, as according to him, the hospital management decided to clean up an old mortuary and put some necessary needed equipment as the temporary center.
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