Over the last 5 days, I have lost 2 patients with symptoms in keeping with Covid.
1. The first came in on the 25th when I had to urgently dash down to Jos to meet with a partner who had recently just arrived from the US. The patient was said to have started having fast breathing, fever and cough. Since I wasn't on sit, he was urgently referred to the small PHC here, he was given some drugs and discharged home. He died in the dead of the night. 2. Second patient came in today with respiratory difficult (fast breathe), a high fever, cough, chest pain, all started suddenly over a period of 3days. No history of travels but had contact with the previous case. I was careful to examine and later sanitize properly. I commenced oxygen at 4L/min, gave high dose antibiotics, dexamethazone, and requested for an xray. After my exam, I was querying lobar pneumonia with Covid as a differential. He died even before the test results could return. Any symptoms close to this I find again, I am referring straight to the Covid centre in Kafanchan.
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