UPDATED: INVESTIGATION: How public laboratories redirect suspected COVID-19 patients to fee-charging private labs
Contrary to the claim of the Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus symptoms can get tested for free at some designated public health facilities, residents who show up for the test are being redirected to private, fee-charging laboratories.
Despite the announcement by the
Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus-like symptoms can go to designated government-run facilities to get tested for free, these laboratories are instead redirecting patients to private laboratories where they are charged as much as N50,000 for the test.
This reporter deliberately exposed himself to cold for four days and came down with symptoms similar to those of coronavirus – cough, headache, runny nose and fever – and presented himself for testing at some public laboratories in the city but officials at the laboratories declined to test him.
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