PDP Queries Health Commissioner Over Lack of Protection Kits, Doctors In Health Centres
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is shocked to note that despite all the noise by the State government about efforts and programmes put in place to checkmate the spread of the dreaded ebola virus disease in the State, no single health centre in the State has protection kits or doctors equipped for the Ebola control.
Lamenting the obvious implication of playing politics with such a serious health problem, the PDP in a statement issued by the State chairman, Bro Felix Obuah and signed by his Special Adviser on media, Jerry Needam demanded to know what happened to the over N1.5b aside the N200m approved by the federal government claimed to have been spent on the control and programmes to checkmate the health challenge by the Amaechi administration.
The Party notes with dismay that throughout the 23 area councils in the State, there is no hospital with Ebola disease protection kits for health workers including the Braithwaite Memorial (BMH) and the so called Kingsley Harrison, Specialist Hospitals in Port Harcourt.
The PDP recalls that it was also the need to properly equip the schools and the health centres for the EVD control that Gov Amaechi rejected the Federal Government’s directive on resumption date for all schools in the country, fixing that of Rivers State for October 6, 2014 yet all the schools are as they were before the Ebola outbreak.
It’s no longer a matter of rhetorics, the PDP argues, demanding that Dr. Sampson Parker should tell Rivers people which of the health centres in the State he supplied the protection kits and which of the hospitals are his trained medical personnel for the Ebola control working.
“it’s now that the then speculation of using ebola for other pecuniary interests by Amaechi, Dr. Parker and a other beneficiaries has become clearer which means that all the claims and counter claims about the disease control were mere deception”, the PDP alleged .
Signed:
Jerry Needam
Special Adviser, on Media to
State PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah
Thursday, October 9, 2014.
