Ogun COVID-19 Assessment Mobile App Not For Diagnostic Purpose – Health Commissioner

By ABUODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA
Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker has declared that the ‘Ogun COVID-19 Assessment Mobile App’ is not for diagnostic purpose, but meant to determine the risk of resident’s exposure to the disease.
The mobile application has been rolled out for members of the public to assess themselves on individual basis as part of precautionary measures to curb the spread of the dreaded Coronavirus by the state government.
It could be recalled that the state government had in March launched a real time concurrently updated mobile application for health workers which has been deployed to all government and private health facilities across its 20 local government areas to aid information sharing. 
Dr. Coker revealed that the new application, christened ‘Ogun COVID-19 Assessment’ is downloadable on Google play store and can also be assessed on https://covid19.ogunhip.com/ and https://covid19.ogunstate.gov.ng/
She said that responses are monitored on a dashboard at the Ministry of Health which will flag high risk individuals as red who are promptly followed up by the State Epidemiologist. 
“This mobile application is an assessment tool for the individual members of the public on the basic symptoms of Coronavirus. It can be downloaded on Google play store. The App is not for diagnostic purpose. 
“Responses are monitored  on a dashboard at the Ministry of Health which will flag high risk individuals as red who are promptly followed up by the State Epidemiologist,” the Commissioner said.
Urging members of the public to take advantage of the mobile application,  Coker assured that the Prince Dapo Abiodun led government in the state is putting measures in place to contain the disease.