The management of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, has revealed that out of the about 200 of its health workers that were infected with COVID-19, no less than four had died. The tertiary hospital said among those killed by the global pandemic were two consultants and a senior matron. It didn’t state the category of the fourth worker who also died of the disease.

The hospital stated this in a series of tweets while responding to a chartered accountant, Kunle Enitan’s tweet about how his critically-ill mother was initially refused admission by LASUTH, until the Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, intervened.

Authorities of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital have explained why every patient seeking treatment in the hospital may not be accepted. The hospital management spoke in reaction to the complaint of a man who said that his sick mother waited for four hours before LASUTH could accept her for treatment.

A chartered accountant, Mr. Kunle Enitan, had narrated how his ailing mother was made to wait for four hours at LASUTH, with no doctor or nurse. According to the tax expert in a tweet via his Twitter handle @kunleenitan on Sunday, his mother was referred to the tertiary hospital from Unita Hospital as an emergency case.

Consultant Radiologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Dr. Caleb Yakubu, says the kind of cancers that physicians see in Nigeria are the very aggressive types. He noted that Africa is now witnessing a rise in cases of colon cancer following increased consumption of refined carbohydrates among its population.

Yakubu said that exposure to injurious substances and the adoption of unhealthy lifestyle predispose people to cancer. The radiologist, who is the coordinator, One Stop Breast Clinic, LUTH, told PUNCH HealthWise in an interview that in the past, Africans do not come down with colon cancer because they fed mainly on their local foods that were nutrient-dense.

Medical experts say there is no scientific basis for the collection of placenta, revealing that many doctors have been harassed by family members of women who delivered in their hospitals for not being able to account for the placenta.

According to them, the collection of placenta by family members of a woman who gives birth is just a cultural thing and has nothing to do with medicine. Speaking in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, one of the experts, a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr. Joseph Akinde, says some family members are so crazy about the placenta to the point that they can sue the doctor if he fails to provide it after delivery.