In a bid to scale up its preparedness to contain the second wave of the Coronavirus, Ogun State Government has opened an Oxygen Therapy Centre to avoid the scarcity of the life saving consumable.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who made this known in Abeokuta, explained that the Oxygen Therapy Centre located within the Infectious Disease Hospital, Iberekodo, Abeokuta consists of 20 beds of high dependency capacity.
Dr Coker affirmed that the state was in the deep of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, describing the infectivity rate of the new strain as being highly infectious.
The health commissioner who encouraged the people to take cognisance of their health said the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Isolation centre was at 90 per cent capacity.
Describing Ogun State as one of the leading states with the number of tests carried out, Dr Coker said adherence to pharmaceutical guidelines remained the only way to contain the pandemic.
Wale Oluokun
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