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Port Harcourt Hospital Reopens Weeks After COVID-19 Case Was Detected

A hospital in Portharcourt, the Rivers State capital, has resumed operations weeks after it shut down following its detection of a COVID-19 case.


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A hospital in Portharcourt, the Rivers State capital, has resumed operations weeks after it shut down following its detection of a COVID-19 case.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the medical Director Dr Martins Nde.

In the statement, the MD thanked God for the protection of all its staff and the opportunity to save lives despite the attendant risks associated with the services.

Recounting how it all started, Nde explained that on the 20th of April, 2020 a patient was admitted to the hospital with a normal body temperature of 36.7oc.
The patient was said to have been diagnosed with signs, symptoms, and laboratory results consistent with resistant malaria and was later discharged on April 21, 2020.

According to Nde, it was later discovered that the state Ministry of Health and NCDC tested the said patient to be positive to COVID -19 on the 28th of April, 2020.

Thereafter, the hospital’s management responded to the development and compelled all staff who had come in contact with the said patient, to undergo medical protocols by submitting themselves for testing, and proceeding on a 14-day monitored self-isolation.

The MD has, however, stated that all staff have been confirmed to be negative to COVID-19 by the NCDC.

He also thanked the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and the NCDC, for their rapid decontamination of the hospital on the 29th of April, 2020, and for all measures taken to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the state.

Meanwhile, he has restated the commitment of the hospital to saving lives and providing efficient and effective professional medical services.