A pregnant woman diagnosed with coronavirus has delivered of a baby boy at Gbagada Isolation Centre in Lagos, it emerged on Saturday evening.
Lagos State Ministry of Health (LSMOH) announced this in a tweet saying;
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A pregnant woman diagnosed with #COVID19 was delivered of a baby boy weighing 2.9kg by our frontline health workers at Gbagada Isolation Centre today. Both Mother and Baby are doing well@jidesanwoolu@JokeSanwoolu@followlasg@NCDCgov@DigiCommsNG pic.twitter.com/ugaidXcXfg— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 16, 2020
LSMOH also announced that a coronavirus patient delivered a baby boy through caesarian operation on Thursday, May 14th at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Also, frontline health workers at @LUTHofficial on Thursday 14th of May, 2020 took delivery of a baby boy involving a #COVID19 patient through caesarian operation for the 3rd time running. pic.twitter.com/3bqcNnTKoT
— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 16, 2020
The Ministry of Health in a follow up tweet appreciated the effort of frontline health workers at Gbadaga, LUTH and other isolation facilities in the state.
We at @LSMOH appreciate frontline health workers at Gbagada, @LUTHofficial and other #COVID19Lagos care centres for the amazing work in the heat of the global pandemic. Your efforts at providing care to patients is commendable 👏 👏👏#LagosAgainstCOVID19#ForADiseaseFreeLagos pic.twitter.com/pgQyqs3rQF
— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 16, 2020
Meanwhile, 67 coronavirus patients including 2 Indians and a Chinese have been discharged from isolation facilities after full recovery.
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*️⃣67 #COVID19Lagos patients; 22 females & 45 males; including 3 foreign nationals – 2 Indians🇮🇳 & a Chinese🇨🇳 have been discharged from our Isolation facilities to reunite with the society.@jidesanwoolu@followlasg@DigiCommsNG@LUTHofficial@WHO pic.twitter.com/ZClhNcPf1M— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 16, 2020
The recovered patients were discharged from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Onikan, Agidingbi, Lekki and LUTH isolation centres.
*️⃣The patients; 24 from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 22 from Onikan, 11 from Agidingbi, 2 from Lekki & 8 from LUTH Isolation Centres have fully recovered & tested negative twice consecutively to #COVID19
*️⃣With this, number of discharged patients has risen to 608.— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 16, 2020
With the new toll, there are now 608 recoveries from coronavirus in Lagos – so far the highest in the country.
See photos of frontline workers who delivered the babies below;
