The management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) has suspended Prof. Kazeem Salami for concealing information about a suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) case in Kwara State.
The hospital management had on Sunday accused the senior consultant of concealing from his colleagues vital information on a suspected case who died at the hospital last Thursday.
The deceased, the hospital said, had been on self-isolation on arrival to Ilorin prior to his presentation at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital “on the advice of the professor who brought him.”
It then said the information of self isolation “was concealed from the frontline medical personnel at first contact in the A&E.”
In a statement issued by the hospital on Monday evening, UITH director of administration, David Odaibo, said the management approved Salami’s suspension sequel to his conduct in the management of the COVID-19 patient.
“The Management of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital hereby suspends Prof A.K. Salami as a Senior Consultant in the hospital,” he said.
“This is as a result of his unethical conduct in the admission, management and eventual release of the corpse of a suspected COVID-19 patient who died in the hospital on the 3rd of April, 2020.”
The state government had on Monday evening announced it recorded two cases which were its index cases.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, said one of the infected persons is the wife of a patient, a UK returnee who died last Thursday, and the other is another UK returnee.
