A doctor working with a private clinic in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has tested positive for coronavirus after treating a pregnant woman who was the third positive case in the state.
It will be recalled that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Monday night announced the fourth positive case in the state, with two of them already treated and discharged.
The doctor was said to have contracted the disease while treating the woman at his private hospital.
The 29-year-old woman, who is a health official with the Lagos State government, was announced as third case in Ekiti last Saturday after returning to the state from Lagos on Wednesday last week.
The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who spoke with Tribune Online, said only one doctor tested positive with 15 turning out to be negative among the blood samples taken to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
“Yes, we have one doctor who tested positive and he is being treated at the isolation centre, but others were negative,” she said.
However, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ekiti State chapter, has called for adequate protection for medical workers through provision of life insurance and other measures.
Speaking with journalists in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, the NMA State Chairman, Dr. Tunji Omotayo, said there was need for government to increase the welfare of medical workers as a doctor contracted the disease while trying to save life.
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