JUST IN: Enugu State Governor Swears in New Commissioner for Health

Barely 5 days after the demise of Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu former Commissioner for Health, had the Executive Governor of Enugu State sworn in an Associate Professor of Public Health Medicine, Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi, as the new commissioner. During the swearing-in ceremony held today at the Government House, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi said, “the compelling need to re-establish commanding leadership for the State’s Health Care System in the face of the escalating Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic, necessitated...

COVID-19: NCDC Team Deployed to Enugu State Expresses Satisfaction With Safety Measures Put in Place by the Government

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) team that visited Enugu State to access her response to the Coronavirus pandemic has expressed satisfaction with the safety measures planned and set up by the State Government to contain the spread of the virus in the State. The team led by Tajudeen Arowolo said this after an interactive session with the State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Dr. Ifeanyi Agujiobi, Head of the State’s Multi-Sectoral Rapid Response Team...

BREAKING NEWS–COVID-19: Enugu State Now has Three Isolation and Treatment Centers

In order to strengthen the capacity of the State’s Healthcare system to contain the Coronavirus pandemic, the Enugu State Government has assigned two more isolation centers in addition to the ESUT Teaching Hospital, Parklane Isolation center. The two new isolation centers are located in Nsukka town and Enugu city; a newly built hospital converted as a center in Nsukka and the Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Center which is about a kilometer away from the ESUT...

BREAKING–ENUGU: COVID 19: The Enugu State Government has Closed Ogbete Main Market

As part of preventive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the State, the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had announced the closure of markets except those dealing on food items, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and other basic items of daily domestic need with effect from 6 pm on Tuesday, 31st March 2020. Barely 24 hours after the kick-off time for the closure of all markets in Enugu State, Governor Ugwuanyi and his entourage...

ENUGU: Nurses in ESUT Teaching Hospital, Parklane Protest, Chanting “No Working Materials for Us”

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and fight to curb its spread, nurses in ESUT Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu on Wednesday were seen gathered at a corner within the hospital premises chanting “no working material for us”. The basic protective materials needed by these nurses for efficient service delivery and protection of their lives were not provided, hence the protest. Materials they demand include facemask, hand gloves, and hand sanitizers. Recall that a couple of weeks ago,...

COVID-19: Enugu SSG Directs Security Agencies to Enforce Closure of All Borders and Markets From 31ST March

As a preventive measure towards curbing the spread of coronavirus, the Secretary to the Enugu State Government, Prof Simon Ortuanya has announced the closure of the borders and all markets within the state with effect from 6pm on Tuesday, the 31st day of March, 2020 till further notice. “All Local Government Chairmen are hereby directed to ensure strict compliance with the closure of the markets within their respective local government councils, without prejudice,” said Prof....

COVID 19: Returnees Advised to Subject Self to Test as Two Test Positive

ENUGU:  Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi, Permanent Secretary of the Enugu State Ministry of Health has confirmed the positive status of two patients in the state who voluntarily presented themselves for COVID-19 testing on arrival from the United Kingdom (UK). “These two confirmed cases which are first in southeast Nigeria brought the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 81. The patients are now in isolation while the Enugu State Multi-Sectoral Rapid Response Team has commenced...

COVID-19: Enugu State Gov Outlines Measures to Combat Coronavirus Pandemic

The Enugu State Governor urges residents in the state to keep calm and comply with the directives of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and the State Ministry of Health’s on ways to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi advised that adhering to the Social distancing protocol as advised by NCDC even in place of religious worship centers as well as in restaurants and eateries will help control the spread of the...

ENUGU: Program Manager, SIRP Urges Parents to Create Time for Their Wards to Guide them Against Drug Abuse

The Program Manager of the Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) Mrs. Evelyn Joseph has advised parents to monitor and guide their children against drug abuse. The SIRP Program Manager spoke at a two-day training seminar on Friday organized by the Society and funded by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Enugu, on the theme, Response to Drugs and Related Organized Crimes in Nigeria. Joseph urged parents to create time...

Good Governance is Proactive Not Reactive, As the Case of Coronavirus Pandemic Shows

Since the beginning of this year, the media was agog with news of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). The World Health Organization (WHO) China Country Office had on 31st December, 2019 informed the organization of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. By 3rd January, 2020, the Chinese national authorities had reported 44 case-patients with this pneumonia, causal agent unidentified until 12th January when the National Health Commission China...

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