Bed Occupancy in Lagos Covid-19 Care Centres increases to 51%
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says the bed occupancy level in the state’s public and private Covid-19 care centres has increased to 51 per cent.
Professor Abayomi made the disclosure through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, on Friday, while giving an update on the outbreak of the disease in the state, a day when Lagos recorded its highest single-day infection – 807.
He said that the eight care centres are; Infectious Disease Hospital 1 and 2, Yaba, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Armour, Paelon, Vedic, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, and Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta.
Professor Abayomi said the care centres had the 448-bed capacity, with 219-bed spaces currently unoccupied and the level of oxygen usage for Covid-19 patients increased at the IDH, Yaba.
The Commissioner stated that the initial projection for oxygen usage in IDH was 70 cylinders per day, but over 71 per cent increase had just been recorded there.
“Given the increases in cases, oxygen usage is expected to increase,” he said.
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