BY MARY KUYE
University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) has on Tuesday quarantined 28 medical staff who they believed had contact with COVID-19 patient.
Recall that Kwara state on Monday recorded two cases of COVID-19 allegedly caused by their contact with a suspected late coronavirus patient.
”Management has ordered the immediate suspension of one Prof Alakija Salami for alleged unethical conduct”, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital Prof Abdullah Yusuf told journalists in Ilorin.
He said:” The institution said it is also working with the Kwara state government Technical Committee on COVID-19 to contact-trace all that attended
“Already, all UITH staff with close contact with the deceased patient on the night of his admission, or his corpse have been ordered to proceed on self-isolation. Besides, the ‘A and E’ ward and the ambulance used to convey his corpse to Off had been promptly fumigated.
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“With all these level of preparedness and precautionary measures, we were taken aback to discover how a very Senior Consultant of this hospital had facilitated the admission of a suspected case of COVID-19 at the Accident and Emergency section of the hospital on the night of Wednesday, April 1st 2020.
“Without belabouring the narrative that led to the unfortunate incident, I humbly request you to use channels of your various media to help convey the remote and immediate decisions we had taken on the professor who facilitated the admission of the patient.
“The management of the hospital has placed Prof A. K. Salami on immediate suspension as a senior consultant in this hospital bothering on his unethical conduct in the admission, management and eventual release of the corpse of the suspected COVID -19 patient who died in the hospital on the 2nd of April, 2020.”
He revealed that the institution had set up an investigation committee to determine the culpability or otherwise of Prof Salami.
