The Abia state Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has said the Federal Medical centre Umuahia will be discharging one out of the two index cases of the novel coronavirus in the state.
Recall that Abia registered 2 Covid-19 cases at the Federal Medical Center Umuahia on April 20.
Addressing journalists at the government’s house in Umuahia recently, Governor Ikpeazu, said that he was elated that the 72 year old patient who responded to treatment will be the oldest person to recover from coronavirus in the South-East.
He said the sample collected from people who had contacts with the index cases including the spouses came back negative.
Ikpeazu explained that the state will continue in its fight against the coronavirus even as it considers options to relax the lockdown.
According to him, “the patient has satisfied the Nigerian centre for disease control requirement to be discharged from the isolation centre which is having two negative results”.
“His remarkable improvement is a positive highlight in the clinical management of the disease and we are greatful to the team of health care workers responsible for the improvement”.
“While we continue in our efforts to trace and identified suspected cases and probable contacts. Our focus is to insure that the testing of both high risk index cases and contacts is carried out and we remain hopeful of negative results all through”.
Again, Abia now has a leap by creating a telemedicine app where you can comfortably access health care in your home with your mobile phone.
