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Yesterday at the press briefing on Covid19, Prof Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health said that the government spends up to N1m daily on each COVID-19 patient in critical condition.



He affirmed that the government spends averagely about N100,000 daily to treat a mild patient while it costs about N500,000 to N1,000,000 to treat a patient with a serious case.

It will be noted that lagos state is the epicentre of the virus in the country with over 13,000 cases.

He further said, “To treat mild to moderate case patients in our isolation centre is somewhere in the region of N100,000 per day.

“That gives you an idea of the amount of money the government is spending on COVID-19 isolation facilities and COVID-19 care.

“If you require high care or intensive care, that amount can go up to anything from N500,000 to even a million naira per day, depending on the complications of the case.

“Do you need ventilation, dialysis, intravenous antibiotics; every case is different, so it is difficult to calculate exactly how much a patient in high care or intensive care would cost.”




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