25 ICU NURSES GO ON COMPULSORY ISOLATION AS PATIENT TESTS POSITIVE TO COVID 19 IN THE ICU UCH.
The management of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, has asked twenty-five (25) nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital to go into compulsory isolation as the result for COVID 19 test for a patient came out to be POSITIVE. This 62-year old patient, a retired consultant Radiologist in Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos, was admitted in the private suites of the University College Hospital on account of Cancer of the prostate. He was said to reside in Lagos, with a travel history to the UK in December, 2019. The surgery was performed to remove the prostate cancer (Radical Prostatectomy) in UCH on the 14th April, 2020. He suddenly developed respiratory distress in the private suites few days after the surgery. After investigations, he was diagnosed of a background Eventeration of the left diaphragm, which necessitated another surgery (Splenectomy and diaphragmatic herniorrhaphy). So he was moved from the operating theatre into the Intensive Care Unit at 8