Lagos Coronavirus Survivor Recounts Her Experience

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The world, even in the midst of the deadly and ravaging Coronavirus (COVID-19) that has infected over 789,000 people and killed 38,101has also seen the recovery of about 166,000.

Lagos, which is the epicenter of the virus in Nigeria, has recorded 81 Coronavirus cases, which remains the highest number of cases in Nigeria, as well recovered cases. 

The state government recently discharged eight recovered coronavirus patients from the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba, one of which took to a micro-blogging social platform, Twitter to recount her experience.

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Owosobi, in a series of tweets narrated her experience at the merciless hands of Coronavirus and how she fought for her life and became victorious.

As an activist, Owosobi said returned to Nigeria from a post Commonwealth event in the United Kingdom, after which she fell ill.

According to Osowobi, she had to immediately go into self-isolation and inform her close contact to get tested for Coronavirus.

While narrating her ordeal, Osowobi revealed that she got tested for Coronavirus after persistently calling Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and requesting to be tested. 

She added that;

The nurses eventually came out & treated me like a plague. I sat in the ambulance feeling rejected. No questions about how I felt.

So many questions about my travel history. Same information I had provided to NCDC & Lagos State Government during profiling. Lack of data sharing!

The activist expressed that she was attended to after two hours, stating that;

After two hours, I was taken to my space. I felt lonely, bored & disconnected from the outside world. Few days after, another patient came in. We bonded. Days later, patients trooped in. “Are people observing self-isolation & social distancing?” I was so scared for Nigeria.

While at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos, Owosobi said she felt she was going to die in the hands of the deadly disease, so she contemplated drafting out a succession plan for her activism organization, Stand To End Rape (S.T.E.R) Initiative 

After being nursed back to life at the isolation centre in Lagos, another set of tests were carried out on her, with came back negative. 

She thanked Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos Commissioner for health, Professor Akin Abayomi and the health team at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Lagos State for helping win the battle between herself and the Coronavirus disease.

Owosobi, however advised the state government and NCDC to encourage more people to get tested by improving their testing capacity.

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