The Ogun State Government said it shut down four out of six isolation centres for COVID-19 patients across the state because it had only 18 patients on admission.

The government said it had decided to close four and would continue to run the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, and the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

The government had opened six isolation centres which include: Ikenne one and two centres; Iberekodo and Babcock centres during the peak period of the coronavirus pandemic in the state.

The government said the situation had shown that there was no serious need to continue running other isolation centres apart from OOUTH and FMC, Abeokuta, which had 16 and two patients on admission respectively.

The Incident Manager of COVID-19 in the state, Dr. Kayode Soyinka, said this at a media roundtable on COVID-19 and adolescent sexual and reproductive health organised by the state Primary Health Care Development Board and Society for Family Health.

Soyinka, who is also Director, Public Health, Ministry of Health, said as of Monday, the state had tested 7,564 cases and recorded 1,646 positive cases and with 1,489 discharged.

He said, “As of Monday, 118 patients are being managed at homes. Also, 16 admitted at OOUTH and two at FMC isolation centres. We have started this since June 16.”

Speaking on the Impact of COVID-19 on adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health needs in the state, the state coordinator of Reproductive Health, Dr Israel Orire, warned stakeholders against negligence.

Orire, who said no fewer than 6,505 adolescent girls were reached between April and July, said only 3,673 of them accessed the health facilities.