Covid-19 - Ikpoba-Okha Revs Up Screening: Hits 81,000

Covid-19 - Ikpoba-Okha Revs Up Screening: Hits 81,000 

...collects 5 samples at winners screening centre, 3 at st. saviour

Monday May 25, 2020

The Ikpoba-Okha Local Government has intensified screening exercise for persons for the novel COVID-19 pandemic; the exercise aims at discovering erupting cases of possible carriers of the disease; recall that Ikpoba-Okha had recorded 42,000 screened persons for the disease a few weeks ago, scaling it up by another 39,000, totalling 81,000

On tour of screening centres across the Local Government Area on Monday, Press Secretary to the Executive Chairman of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government, Mr. Eseosa Ewere, got briefing from the health officials on duty, commending the level of compliance of residents in the area

An official however revealed that huge number of persons are still unreceptive to the exercise, hence the need to rev up awareness; Ikpoba-Okha Local Government has in the last months embarked on extensive sensitization exercises, visiting public facilities such as markets, parks, homes and other places of public interests

As part of efforts to prevent spread of the disease, the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Chairman, Dr. Eric Osayande, last month, flagged-off 10 screening centres across the LGA to intensity COVID-19 curtailment; the screening centres are located at Uteh Ward 1, Immigration Office Ward 2, Ohovbe and Ogbeson Ward 3, Aduwawa Primary School Ward 4, St. Saviour Junction Ward 5, Winners Chapel Car Park, Sapele Road and School of Health Technology Ward 6

Others are Children Welfare Ward 7, Egba Community Town Hall Ward 8, Ogheghe Health Centre Ward 9 and Ologbo Primary Health Centre Ward 10

During the Monday tour, health officials at the Winners Chapel screening centre revealed that samples of 5 persons have been taken, while at St. Saviour centre, officials said 3 samples have been extracted and will be transmitted to the lab testing

When asked the reason behind the rising cases in Edo in particular and Nigeria in general, a health official at the St. Saviour Junction Screening Centre revealed that the rising cases of the pandemic is as a result of the effective screening and sampling of people in Edo State and other areas as that is the most efficient method of discovering actual carriers

Dr. Eric Osayande has said that more sensitization programmes will hold in the coming days and weeks, urging residents to continue to observe the prescribed precautionary measures of social distancing, hand sanitization, use of face masks, regular hand-washing with soap under running water; residents have also been advised to maintain proper personal hygiene as recommended by government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other relevant agencies

Eseosa Ewere
Press Secretary to the Executive Chairman of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government

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