BY TIMOTHY AGBOR, OSOGBO
CHIEF Medical Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Prof. Victor Adetiloye, has disclosed that the institution has successfully cured a 101-year-old woman infected with COVID-19.
Adetiloye made this known on Thursday, in Ile-Ife, while speaking with journalists.
He said it had never happened in Nigeria that a coronavirus patient of that age survived the infection.
The CMD noted that adults of any age with underlying conditions like cancer, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Down Syndrome, heart failure, coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathies were at high risk of severe illness from the virus.
He said the hospital had treated 120 COVID-19 patients without casualty since the second wave started till date.
On how the aged woman, (name withheld) was cured, the CMD said, “This woman was admitted and treated at a private hospital for malaria, but when the condition worsened, she was screened for COVID-19 and tested positive and she was later referred to our isolation centre.
“She was in a state of coma, placed on oxygen when she was admitted, but thank God for our professionals that successfully revived her.”
He explained that the woman was admitted on January 30 and discharged on February 10, which meant she spent 11 days at the hospital and went home alive.
“If you see this aged mother, after she was discharged, she was so exited, singing, dancing and praying for the staff with her children because all hope had been lost on her,” he said.
Adetiloye commended the Federal Government, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Ministry of Health for their support and for providing the facilities and drugs needed for the patients.
