EHORECON Seeks Tie With NCDC On Disease Control

EHORECON Seeks Tie With NCDC On Disease Control

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja

R-L: Registrar of Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON), Dr. Baba Yakubu Mohammed presenting an award to the Director-General, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu in Abuja, recently.

As part of its commitment towards addressing the scourge of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON) has requested for active collaboration with the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in ending cholera outbreak across the country.

Registrar of EHORECON, Dr. Baba Yakubu Mohammed stated this in Abuja yesterday during a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

Mohammed sought the establishment of environmental and public health department in NCDC for easy coordination of activities between the two agencies.

According to him, "We want NCDC to also have a laboratory where water, air, food and soil can be analysed on time, as it will go a long way in addressing foodborne diseases that is currently ravaging our society”.

While acknowledging the role played by the NCDC during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, he said that capacity building between EHORECON and NCDC would empower the staff to tackle emerging and re-emerging diseases.

The registrar said that Environmental Health Officers (EHO's) have adopted scientific innovations that is guiding the practice of environmental health and disease control in Nigeria.

He recalled that public health law, which is a regional law designed to grant sanitary inspectors the needed powers and privileges to inspect any premises without a warrant, would be useful if NCDC engages the services of EHOs during enforcement.

The registrar stated that the Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar recently launched two additional curricula for the development of environmental health profession.

Responding, the Director-General of NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu said the establishment of a laboratory is necessary as NCDC has been working day and night to test environmental samples.

He endorsed capacity building and partnership with Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), meant to facilitate the control of infectious and emerging diseases in Nigeria.

Comments

National Parks Panacea In Mitigating Climate Change- Olory

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja The Conservator of Park, Cross River National Park, CP Caroline Olory has disclosed that National Parks hold the key to mitigating climate change across the country. She stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a workshop organised by the Development Agenda in collaboration with Environmental Media Correspondents Assodiation of Nigeria with the theme: "Climate Change and COP28: The Way Forward For Nigeria." The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) scheduled to hold in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will garner more than 70,000 participants, including heads of state and government, government officials, representatives of international organisations, business leaders, academics and civil society organisations. Olory lamented that climate disasters are happening at frightening rates in Nigeria, and a panacea to cushion the effect is the standing forest which serves as carbon sink that would absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. She informed

Emerging Diseases: EHCON Faults Health Workers For Neglecting PPEs

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja L-R: Registrar of Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCON) Dr Yakubu Baba and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mr Mahmud Adam Kambari during a Ministerial press briefing on Monday in Abuja. The Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCON) has faulted health workers for neglecting the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) in treating patients taunted by emerging diseases. This followed the outbreak of an Acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) suspected to be Lassa Fever at the Accident and Emergency unit of the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna State last week. News Rider reports that a circular issued on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, by the Acting Corps Commander of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps, Brigadier General S.O Okoigi revealed that the index patient died at the hospital after presenting symptoms of febrile illness while three health workers died within 48 hours. The PPEs are goggles, masks, glov

Video: Civil Servants Write Promotional Exams In Darkness

Staff of Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Abuja are currently writing their promotional examination in darkness. In the 11 seconds video, the civil servants were seen writing the examination with torchlight and assistive light from their phones. Findings revealed that the hall, which has poor lighting and ventilation compelled staff battling with poor eyesight to struggle to read the examination. Regretably, the question papers were not typed but hand written, photocopied and distributed to the civil servants. An eyewitness told News Rider that the promotional exams earlier scheduled for November 9, 2023 by 10am, started at the Conference Hall, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Phase 1, Federal Secretariat Abuja. "The question we are asking is what of the money budgeted for the promotion examination that the ministry cannot distribute a typed question paper "The staff are writing exams with the touch light of their phones

News Rider

Search This Blog