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Covid-19: Lagos Begins Building 10 Oxygen Tents

by Julius Afolalu
January 8, 2021
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In a bid to aid treatment of Coronavirus patients, Lagos State Government has said that it would build 10 oxygen tents for patients with respiratory challenges.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated this to media correspondents, yesterday, after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Sanwo-Olu lamented that the state remained the epicentre of the COVID-19 in the country, while noting that the second wave appeared more infectious than the first.

The governor said, “COVID-19 is with us and it is not just something playing in their heads. We have seen, unfortunately, the fatality rate around the country, even in Lagos. One of the things we have realised is that a lot more people require oxygen attention; they need additional breathing aid. So, we have started building what we call oxygen tents.

“We are building about 10 of such facilities; we have inaugurated about four or five of them and we are also building proper oxygen plants, additional to oxygen plants in the state so that we can meet the respiratory requirements.”

The governor narrated how his government was managing the second wave of COVID-19 in the state and how it was trying to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed during the violence unleashed on the state in the aftermath of last year’s #EndSARS protests.

“It is work in progress. To take something down takes one day, to rebuild it takes 10 years. It is a journey, not a destination. And so, it is going to take a while. We are carefully taking a proper study to know what we need to do; taking our time to get it right but we have started something.”

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