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Dr Emeka Chugbo, a 51-year-old medical doctor who, has became the first health worker in Nigeria to die of COVID-19 after contracting the virus from a patient he was treating..He died Wednesday morning.
Contrary to report that he attempted to manage a Coronavirus patient at a private hospital , YOU NEWS learnt that
Dr Chugbo a consultant *Obsterician and gynecologist* was called in to do an emergency CS for his pregnant patient who was in sever distress as well as her unborn fetus. Unknown to him, she was a case of COVID 19 and that’s how he got infected.
*COVID 19 is primarily a respiratory disease that is treated mainly by Internal physicians (pulmonologists), Anesthetists/ intensivists, infectious disease experts, ENT surgeons occasionally, BUT NEVER BY OBSTETRICIANS/GYNECOLOGISTS*
So there is no way Dr Chugbo (an Obs/Gynae consultant ) was intentionally treating a COVID patient in his private clinic knowing he lacked the facility to do so as is making rounds now.
What he Did was a CS operation not attempt to treat COVID and being the excellent Dr he was, he always went all the way to ensure the best treatment for his patients, And seeing a woman in distress, he rushed in to save her life not knowing it will Cost him his.
It was when she died 2 days after the surgery that the news came that she was a COVID patient.
Unfortunately, Dr Chibuo being an Asthmatic also was already infected and didn’t make it.
He reported died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, on Wednesday after he was rushed to the hospital.
Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, said the doctor was not a staff of the hospital but was rushed to the facility after he showed symptoms of the disease.
“The doctor is not a LUTH staff; he was a private practitioner, though he trained in LUTH some 18, 20 years ago. I remember I met him, I know him, he left LUTH around 2002. One of his classmates called me that he has some issues in his private hospital, so I asked that he should be brought to LUTH.
“He was COVID-19 positive, we started him on drugs but unfortunately, he died this morning (Wednesday),”
He refused to disclose the name of the doctor in line with the ethics of medical profession.
But YOU NEWS obtained it by other means.
