Professor suspended for concealing suspected COVID-19 case

Premium Times 11 April 2020

The management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in Nigeria has suspended Kazeem Salami, the professor and senior consultant accused of concealing vital information about a suspected COVID-19 case in Kwara State, writes Alfred Olufemi for Premium Times.

COVID-19 is the deadly respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. It has infected over a million people globally and caused over 60,000 deaths. Premium Times reported how the hospital authorities accused Salami of concealing from his colleagues vital information on a suspected case who died at the hospital.

The federal facility said the deceased, Muhideen Obanimomo, a 57-year-old UK returnee, had been in self-isolation on arrival in Ilorin prior to his presentation at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit of the hospital “on the advice of the professor who brought him”. It said the fact of self-isolation “was concealed from the frontline medical personnel at first contact in the A&E, an act that the hospital management considered unethical”.
Full report on the Premium Times site

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