Akwa Ibom discharges two coronavirus patients, takes delivery

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The Akwa Ibom State government at the weekend said it had discharged of two of the 29 persons undergoing treatment for the dreaded COVID-19 from its medical facilities. Nigeria CoronaVirus Covid19

The State Incident Manager and Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, who made the disclosure in Uyo, clarified that the lucky residents had been certified negative by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control , bringing to 16 the number of those treated and discharged of the viral infection since the first incidents on April 1, 2020.

“Yesterday , you saw the magnificent 300- bed facility that the governor put up at Ituk Mbang, and I told people that it is going to compliment the services provided in the earlier facilities provided at Ikot Ekpene and the one here at the Ibom Specialist Hospital,” Ukpong recalled. Speaking during the inauguration of the 300-bed isolation centre at Ituk Mbang, Uruan local council of the state at the weekend, he reiterated that despite providing over 25 per cent of the country’s revenues, the Federal Government had failed to set up a laboratory or treatment centre in the state.

 

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