Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu has shut its main medical laboratory unit after 14 more workers tested positive for coronavirus.
However, The Nation gathered 14 out of 16 staff in the laboratory tested positive, which a source described as second wave of mass infection at the health facility. A laboratory staff, who craved anonymity, on Wednesday, told journalists workers in the facility had been going for COVID-19 test since last Friday, following the death of a staff while some were already ill and manifesting symptoms associated with COVID-19.The Nation learnt as at Tuesday, 20 out of about 70 staff in the laboratory had tested positive.
“When they started bringing the samples of Covid-19 patients to us last month, the Director of Medical Laboratory Services Department wrote the management demanding for those things to be put in place so that in the course of caring for others, we will also not be jeopardising our lives but the management did nothing, they are always quick to say there is no money, yet we know that we are generating money for the government.
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