Breaking: Coronavirus kills Nigeria’s first health worker in Lagos

A doctor who treats coronavirus COVID-19 patients has died in Lagos on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,

The medical doctor is the first health worker in Nigeria to die from complications from Coronavirus.

According to reports the doctor, who was exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19, died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital where he has been receiving treatment since Monday.

Also, according to the Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof Wasiu Adeyemo, said the doctor was not a staff of the hospital but was rushed to the facility after he showed symptoms of the disease.

The doctor is not a LUTH staff; he was a private practitioner, though he trained in LUTH some 18, 20 years ago. I remember I met him, I know him, he left LUTH around 2002.

One of his classmates called me that he has some issues in his private hospital, so I asked that he should be brought to LUTH. He was COVID-19 positive, we started him on unfortunately, he died this morning (Wednesday),” Adeyemo said.

Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Prof Chris Bode further confirming the doctors death said doctor was rushed to the LUTH after he showed severe signs of the virus.

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The Nigerian Medical Association also confirmed the death of the doctor.

“Until his death, he was a private medical practitioner, who was exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19.

“We condole with his immediate family and members of the medical community for this painful loss,” the NMA said.