The Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is shocked to note that despite all the claims 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, Felix Obuah and signed by his Special Adviser on media, Jerry Needam demanded to know what happened to the over N1.5bn set aside to fight the virus apart from the N200m approved by the federal government.
The party noted with dismay that throughout the 23 area councils in the state, there are 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 recalled that Governor Chibuike Amaechi rejected the Federal Government’s directive on resumption date for all schools in the country, fixing that of Rivers State for 6 October with a claim to properly equip the schools and the health centres for the EVD control, only for the schools to be void of the requisite materials.
It’s no longer a matter of rhetorics, the PDP argued, demanding that Dr. Sampson Parker 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 obvious that Ebola was used for other pecuniary interests by Amaechi, Dr. Parker and other beneficiaries. All the claims and counter-claims about the disease control were mere deception,” the PDP claimed.
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