Authorities in the Nigeria Federal Capital, Abuja have shut two of its insolation centres used in treating COVID-19 patients in the country’s capital.
The Isolation Centres in Karu and Asokoro general hospitals were closed following a reduction in the number of COVID-19 patients.
This made it that only the treatment centres in Idu and THISDAY Dome, the only two centres left open for COVID-19 patients in Abuja.
Nigeria had recently been recording significant reduction in the number of the infection daily, both in the 36 states of the federal and the FCT.
For about a month now, the daily record of COVID-19 cases had been below 300, an indication that the country was attaining a fairly high-level ground in its fight against the pandemic.
Health authorities have warned that Nigeria should not relax in its fight against the pandemic as there had been low testing across the country.
Nigeria has recorded over 58,000 cases of COVID-19 with over 1,100 deaths and about 49,000 recovered patients after treatment.
According to data from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Nigerian had about 8,000 active cases.
According to Premium Times, its visit to the Karu isolation centre on Friday show that the centre was under lock and key. This was the same with the Asokoro isolation centre.
Authorities said the decision to shut the two centres were as a result of fewer patients infected from the coronavirus.
According to the acting secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory Administration, Mohammed Kawu, the centres were not purposely guilt as COVID-19 treatment centres, this was the reason to convert them to their initial purpose.
The official said, “We officially converted both centres to conventional hospitals on August 24, 2020, because the number of COVID-19 patients is tremendously low,” Kawu told PREMIUM TIMES on the phone.
The 500-bed capacity facility in Idu used to be an unoccupied railway school facility at the Abuja-Kaduna railway terminal at Idu. It was however converted to an isolation centre at the onset of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
“THIS DAY Dome also has a 300-bed capacity, which is enough to cater for patients in the Nigerian capital. Both centres were intentionally built as isolation centres.”
