Akwa Ibom State government has discharged five Covid-19 patients including a nursing mother from the Isolation centre at the Ibom Specialist Hospital, Uyo.
Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, who made this known to reporters at the Ibom Specialist Hospital shortly after their discharge, said one of the discharged survivors was a medical worker with the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital.
Dr. Ukpong explained that the nursing mother had to be given special treatment at home since she had a 7-month old baby and two infants aged two and three respectively in her care.
He commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for putting in place a means through which medical care was administered to the woman as there was no way she could have been brought with her three children into the facility, since none of the children had tested positive.
On the reported case of 50 medical workers awaiting testing at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Dr Ukpong said he was not aware of such number of people lining up for testing at UUTH as the one profiled and who met the criteria for testing was among those discharged today.
The Commissioner also disclosed that the state had so far done 458 contact tracing, indicating that about 99.1% attainment as acknowledged by NCDC.
He added that Governor Emmanuel had performed very well in the fight against the disease, especially judging from the huge number of the index cases and the gradual decline in the numbers, but urged Akwa Ibom people to continue observing the laid down precautionary measures in order to check the spread of disease in the state.
