…Embarks on General Renovation of Council Headquarters
In a bid to drive the state government’s health policies and programmes down to the rural areas, the chairman of Ohaukwu local government area, Barrister Clement Odah, has donated deep freezer to the Local Government Immunization Officer to help preserve drugs and ice cubes.
Odah stated this while interacting with The Voice recently, adding that temperature is a major key to preserving drugs.
He noted that it was very important to ensure that the drugs given to children in the local government area are active and achieves its purpose.
Stating that apart from the deep freezer, the local government council also donated other health equipments to support the health system.
“It is necessary that the local government supports the health system of the state government, whether measles campaign, immunization, malaria campaign, tip-top team vaccination and all manner of health activities. Recently, we donated to the immunization officers several equipments including, deep freezer that will enable them create and preserve their ice cubes because these vaccines that our children are injected with only serve at a certain temperature. Once it is either too hot or too cold the vaccine will lose its potency. Heat especially is a major challenge so you must preserve it. I think the best condition is at a certain cold state, if you cannot keep the temperature of the vaccine at that temperature, what you give to the children is just liquid.
“So we have provided the equipments including deep freezer to make sure that what is given to our children in the hinter lands is the true vaccine that will achieve the purpose for which it is meant for.
“The items were donated to the local government immunization team leader. Just as we have the State Immunization Officer (SIO), local government has Local Government Immunization Officer that is their designations.
“There are other persons involved, that is the malaria focal person, Admin Sec of the department of health, they are all together”, he stated.
However, in another development The Chairman of Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Hon. Clement Odah, has also embarked on general renovation of the council headquarters located at 135 Ezzamgbo.
In an interaction with The Voice, Odah said the renovation and environmental improvement are imperative and will ensure adequate maintenance of the structures to prevent unnecessary decay.
He noted that the council also embarked on tree planting and ornamentation in other to make aesthetic improvements to the buildings
“The local government is now dotted with beautiful trees and flowers and it’s a cynosure of all eyes”.
“If you look at what is happening at the state level, you will know that the government house was renovated and some environmental improvements carried out and anyone passing there today wouldn’t need a soothsayer to tell him that, that is Ebonyi State Government House.
“So we want the local government to have such admiring look, most especially as it is on the express way”, he stated.
