A monkeypox sufferer
According to a The Nation report, a relative of a suspected
monkeypox patient has said that his brother was on Monday refused
admission into the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
The relative who pleaded anonymity said he was shocked to read in
the papers that the hospital had admitted a patient in the isolated
centre created for possible MonkeyPox outbreak.
“I read reports of suspected Monkey Pox patient been admitted to UBTH with surprise.
“For the record, when we took our brother there [hospital] on
Monday, we were driven away by some medical personnel at the accident
and emergency ward on account that they don’t have facilities to cater
for Monkey Pox patients.
“So, I have this question for UBTH management: Is it our
brother that they chased away that is now in their facility receiving
treatment.
“Except of course, they have another patient over there. And​
if we are to go by that, would they have rejected my brother on Tuesday
on account of no facility and admitted another in their supposed Monkey
Pox isolated complex?,” he queried.
But Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mr. Uwaila Joshua,
said the information about a rejected patient was strange to the
hospital management.
Mr. Uwaila stated that the hospital management was not aware that any patient with possible monkeypox disease was rejected..
He said there was no tension at the hospital owing to the report of a patient with monkeypox being admitted at the hospital.
His words, “Nobody is evacuating anybody. I don’t know whose purpose that is being served. The whole place is clam. Everything is normal.”
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