No fewer than 12 medical officers have contracted coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in Bauchi State.
This was revealed by the state commissioner for Health, Dr Aliyu Maigoro, at a news conference on Saturday in Bauchi.
He noted that no death had been recorded so far amongst all the affected medical officers.
He said,
“As of today, we have 12 medical officers in the whole of Bauchi State who have been infected with COVID-19. Six of them are in Azare, while others are in Bauchi.”
He said the state was on the alert to avoid the escape of COVID-19 patients.
Meanwhile, the Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Azare, Dr Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the cases of strange deaths were not reported to the hospital.
Abdullahi, who spoke to one of our correspondents in a telephone interview, said the hospital had only recorded one COVID-19 related death and no record of alarming mortality in recent times.
He said,
“As far as the Federal Medical Centre in Azare is concerned, we have not witnessed an increase in the pattern of mortality in our hospital. In truth, we have had only one death from COVID-19. She was an elderly woman, aged about 80. She came to the hospital and we tested her and she was COVID-19 positive before she died.
“We are managing the other confirmed cases while others are still awaiting the outcome of their test.”
Asked specifically about the strange deaths, he said,
“The truth is that in the community there are deaths but any death that happened in the community and not brought to the hospital is under the jurisdiction of the local government and the National Population Commission to take care of, I mean any increase in statistics.”
