Ogun Veteran Journalist COVID-19 Test Result Missing

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA

Crisis looms in Ogun State as journalist COVID-19 test result is missing two weeks he after voluntarily presented himself for the test to know his health status.

This may not be best of time for the state government whose efforts to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic across the state, just as the Taskforce on Coronavirus may have bitten more than what it can chew, resulting in its inability to produce the result of test conducted in Abeokuta, after two weeks.

The Abeokuta based veteran journalist, Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji, who is also the Publisher, Penpushing Media had voluntarily approached the taskforce to undergo the test, in order to know his health status, being an essential worker following the gradual ease of the lockdown.

The veteran journalist on July 4th, 2020, was at the MTR hospital located at Oke-Mosan Abeokuta, one of the centres where the test were being carried out, and was equally examined, and thereafter in view of the coronavirus protocols, the result was billed to be ready within one week of the test.

He said that the officials told him to follow the guideline and protocols that a telephone call would be put across after a week to announce the result, but precisely a week when there was no information, a phone call was put across to the officials.

However, he affirmed that the official (names withheld) who received the call for the result enquiry, requested for full name of the voluntary patient, with a promise to get back, and the name was immediately forwarded to the official on July 12.

He narrated: “On July 4th, 2020, I voluntarily presented myself for the coronavirus test conducted at MTR hospital located at Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta, which is one of the designated centres for the test. On completion of the test, I was told that it will take one week for the result to be ready.

“The officials told me that a phone call will be put across to me after one week to announce my result, when it was exactly a weeks that I didn’t hear from the authorities, I took time to call, and an official said I should forward my full name in which I did.

“But to my dismay for another one week, which makes it two weeks as at July 18th, 2020, my result was not available. I made further frantic efforts but met a brick wall.

“For another one week, the taskforce is yet to produce the result, while all efforts to get to the root of the lapses has remained unsuccessful as at now.”