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Akwa Ibom spends N11.5m on COVID-19 tests
The Akwa Ibom State Government has said it spent N50,000 on each COVID-19 test. As of June 2, according to the NCDC, the state had tested 231 people.
The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Dominic Ukpong on Sunday disclosed that the state spent N50,000 and above on each test conducted for COVID-19 patient outside the state.
He stated,
“We have calculated because we have just set up a laboratory and right now the NCDC is screening our laboratory for approval and I believe by tomorrow or Tuesday we will have the lab approved for testing.
“If you sit down and calculate the expenses on one test it’s in the region of N50,000 and above. The last calculation we made was in that region. Compare this to private hospitals. There are some private hospitals in Lagos, in addition to the federal laboratories in Yaba.”
This comes as Kwara, Ogun, Kano, Edo and Oyo states on Sunday failed to disclose the amount they had spent on COVID-19 tests.
A few weeks ago, it was disclosed that Lagos State had spent N800m on COVID-19 tests.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said the average cost of a test was between N40,000 andN50,000. As of that time, the state had conducted 16,000 COVID-19 tests.
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