Pete Edochie’s son spent N6million treating COVID-19 after it damaged 80% of his Lungs

Pete Edochie’s son spent N6million treating COVID-19 after it damaged 80% of his Lungs

Uche Edochie, one of the sons of veteran actor Pete Edochie, has narrated his battle with Covid-19, which he says felt like he was “dying”.

He explained that the Covid-19 isolation treatment facility he has admitted to charges 350,000 Naira per day and he spent 6 million Naira treating the disease. He added that he knows someone who spent 17 million Naira to treat Covid-19.

He explained that when he initially became sick, he thought it was malaria and so was treating malaria. By the time he realized he wasn’t getting better and was diagnosed with Covid-19, 80 per cent of his lungs were damaged.

He explained that he felt like he was dying and waking up over and over again while on hospital admission.

He said he’s recovering now but his lungs will take months to heal completely.

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He called on the government to invest in more affordable treatment for Covid-19, otherwise more people will die from the disease.

See what he wrote below;

Me in recovery at the covid 19 isolation treatment facility in Gbagada around twelve days ago. My older brother @leoedochie paid me a visit. Best big brother ever. So Covid finally got me and it is quite some story.

When I fell sick weeks ago, I thought I had malaria. So I spent the first couple of weeks treating for malaria. By the time I realised this could be something else, it was too late. By the time I was rushed to the hospital, eighty percent of my lungs were damaged. I couldn’t eat or breathe and I was on oxygen for weeks. I couldn’t walk either and had severe chest pains. I kept blacking out. It felt like I was dying and waking up over and over again. I have never seen anything like this.

For the first time in my life, I had no control over anything. I felt like I was on a boat drifting away in the still of the night rudderless.The days that followed passed bye slowly and everything was a blur. I just remember laying in the hospital and floating endlessly like a feather in an abyss of nothing. The days turned to weeks and my recovery is going well. I am fully cured of covid now and I am able to walk a little. My lungs will take months to heal completely. So I am still on oxygen and other medications but I am back home.

Curing covid costs a fortune too and that is a problem. That is often why people die. The facility where I was treated charges N350,000 a day. I was there for twelve days before being moved to First Cardiology Centre in Ikoyi for my lung and heart rehabilitation. Total cost of my treatment so far has exceeded six million naira. I know a guy whose covid treatment cost seventeen million naira.
Governments must invest in affordable treatment or more and more people will die. Affordable treatment is our last line of defense. We have tried lock downs, masks and vaccines and covid is still spreading. Even the vaccinated are still catching covid.

And that was my covid experience. My family has been incredibly supportive and so have the healthcare workers that took care of me. In all these people, I saw the face of God. I will never forget.

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