The Reason Chief Medical Doctor and Others Don’t Wear Masks Around the Ward Treating the Italian Man with Coronavirus (Video)
Dr. Bowale Abimbola, the Chief Medical Director at the Mainland General Hospital Yaba where the Italian patient with Coronavirus is being treated, has clarified the rationale behind not wearing facemasks and other protective gear.
Over the weekend, Nigerians criticized him and the state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, after a photo of them speaking to the Italian man in the isolation center surfaced without them wearing any protective gear.
The Chief Medical Director stated that there is no need to wear a mask when there is a reasonable distance between the patient and himself.
"I am not using any facemask because the distance between me and where the patient is is more than 2 meters so I can't get i...