Italian man infected with coronavirus attempts to escape due to excessive heat, mosquitoes [see photos]

The 44-year-old Italian man who was Nigeria’s first recorded case of the Coronavirus disease has reportedly attempted escape from the facility where he’s been quarantined.

The patient is being held at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos (formerly, Infectious Diseases Hospital) from where he tried to leave.

A health worker at the place said that the Italian has attempted to leave because of the poor conditions of the facility reports Punch.

The high ranking health worker, on Friday, decried the ‘very poor quality’ of the isolation centre, lamenting that “the authorities have not matched words with action.”

Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, had said on Friday that the state government had built a facility to handle the situation, adding that the patient was getting better.

Hamzat had said,

“It is a lab that can accommodate 100 for now, but it is only one bed that is occupied today. Hopefully, it wouldn’t spread. We are ready and we are well equipped. He (the patient) is there and he is getting better. He is steady. The doctors say he is going to be fine.’’

According to the health worker, the patient had complained bitterly about the condition as he was “very upset about the surrounding,” adding that the patient “complained of excessive heat and mosquitoes.”

The health worker, who did not wear any personal protective equipment required of workers in such an environment, said,

“The patient wanted to run away yesterday (Thursday). The Italian man, who seems to be an engineer, was very angry that the room where he was kept was very hot.

“There is nothing there (inside the isolation ward) aside from bed and hospital locker. He almost ran away and is still threatening to do that.”

The source said the level of preparedness in Lagos State for infectious diseases such as coronavirus and Lassa fever “is zero.”

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