Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman Medical Advisory Committee of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, said the institution did not have any contact with any coronavirus patient.
Adeyemo told the News Agency of Nigeria on phone on Friday that the patient was never presented in the hospital.
He said there was no need for the populace to panic.
He said in his own opinion and as far as LUTH was concerned, several meetings, seminars and workshops had been done on how to respond to such cases if they should occur.
Adeyemo said that LUTH was prepared and others should get prepared.
“In a situation like this, if you have any confirmed case, we make sure that we isolate the patient, trace the contacts the patient must have had contact with,” he said.
Adeyemo said the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government were fully on ground to respond to cases of people with coronavirus.
He said they had been providing quality care for patients, the index case and most importantly, there is need to prevent any hospital outbreak.
The chairman said the hospital was there to provide preventive medicine to stop transmission of diseases and also to prevent community transmission.
NAN reports that the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, had on Friday confirmed the first case of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak in Lagos, saying it was brought into the country by an Italian.
Abayomi said in Lagos that the Italian had arrived Nigeria on February 25 from Milan, Italy for a brief business visit.
Abayomi, however, said the State Emergency Operations Centre had been activated in response to the case and to implement firm control measures.
The commissioner said the case was confirmed on February 27 and has been reported to the Federal Ministry of Health.
Abayomi said the patient fell ill on February 26 and was transferred to the Lagos State Biosecurity Facilities for isolation and testing.
“The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos,” Abayomi said.
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