COVER SPECIAL
COVER SPECIAL
Dr. Olaitan Abimbola
think we can use to build our immunity
of spread is fast. So, for children of
but the immunity we have in Christ as
God out there, we want to encourage
He is the Greatest Physician, working
you to stay at home. Those who
r Olaitan Abimbola is a Senior Registrar in the Internal Medicine Department
on our behalf and being our advocate.
were COVID-19 positive had contact
of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
We pray and read the word of God
with people, so the stay at home
together, we avoid listening to news
order actually works in curtailing
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gw: Being on the front line, how has it been for you?
them. Yes, the patients are usually
of doctors and nurses who have died,
the spread. Also, avoid listening to
scared because of the uncertainty of a
but we believe in the word of God that
negative, terrible news flying around
Well it has been okay. Being in the
novel disease, but so far, the patients I
says “we shall live” and that is what is
on social media, get information from
profession entails taking care of
have managed have done well.
helping us.
credible sources. Ensure the rules of
patients whether COVID-19 positive
hygiene: frequent
gw: What advice do you have for us generally?
hand washing
serious, contagious ailments like Ebola
gw: How has your faith/ belief helped you?
and Lassa Fever in the past and God
As a child of God, I know that God is
I just want to advise everybody that
and water,
has helped us even without knowing
there to keep us, according to the
we need to keep calm. We have not
cough into
their statuses prior to their diagnoses.
word of God which says “no disease
recorded any causality or mortality at
elbows and
of the Egyptians will not come upon
my center. All of them have survived
sanitize. gw
gw: Personally, how has it been for you as an individual, how do you handle the fears and anxiety?
us” (Exodus 11:7). My colleagues
to the glory of God. Presently, we are
and I (majority of whom are also
about discharging some, and some
Christian) have been proclaiming
have been discharged already. We
those scriptures regularly. When the
believe based on what we have seen,
COVID-19 outbreak started, many
that the mortality is quite low in those
For me, there is no anxiety. I have been
people were pasting and quoting
without comorbidities, but the rate
the focal person during the Lassa Fever
Psalm 91 here and there, but it’s one
outbreak in Ogun State, therefore I
thing to quote in fear, and another to
have experiences on how patients and
know your place in Christ. We believe
medical personnel feel and what they
that now that we are in the frontline
go through. So, for COVID-19 I had
helping people to survive, He is also
prepared my heart and mind before it
there with us. This has been our source
entered Nigeria as I knew I would most
of strength. It is not just the materials
likely be called to help in managing
that we put on or the things that we
or negative. There have been other
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