We spend N1m daily to treat each COVID-19 patient with severe illness – Lagos Health Commissioner

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, said the government spends between N500,000 and N1 million daily to treat a COVID-19 patient in critical condition. Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Abayomi said the cost of managing a patient depends on factors such as being mild, moderate or severe. The Commissioner said up to N100,000 can be spent on a patient with mild symptoms  daily. To treat mild to moderate case patients in our isolation centre is somewhere in the region of N100,000 per day, Abayomi said. That gives…

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