The Anambra State Government Action Committee against the Coronavirus Pandemic through the Ministry of Health has trained primary health care officers from the twenty-one Local Government areas of the State.


The training is to get the officers prepared ahead of any identification of a case of the novel Coronavirus in the State and how to remain safe as Heath workers during this period.


Leading the training are the Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, the Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Chioma Ezenyimulu, and the Managing Director, Anambra Oxygen Production Plant, Dr Onyeka Ibezim who is also the Special Adviser to the Governor on Indigenous Medicine and Herbal Practice.


Participants at the training include Directors of Primary Health Care Services in the twenty-one LGAs, Officers in Charge of Primary Health Care Centres in the LGAs, State Health Educator, State Epidemiologists, and the Director, Disease Control and Immunization, Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency.


The trainees showed example of social distancing as they seated separated from each other.


Addressing the health Workers, Commissioner for Health, Dr Okpala reiterated the government’s commitments and other efforts being made to contain any local spread of the virus in the state, while seeking support of the health workers in the fight against the coronavirus.


He assured that like during the fight against the Ebola Virus epidemic, the State Government has made provisions to insure health workers, who will be directly, involved at the isolation centres across the state.


Earlier, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Indigenous Medicine and Herbal Practice, Dr Ibezim lamented that many Churches and individuals are still disobeying government order on the ban of public gatherings and called for collaborative effort to enable the State successfully combat the pandemic.


Also the Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Chioma Ezenyimulu, emphasized the role of the primary health care workers in ensuring that those at the rural areas have first hand information on the dangers and preventive measures against the COVID-19, urging them to extend the training to other health Workers at the Primary Health Centres.


Later the State Epidemiology Unit among other things trained the participants on the steps of handling any COVID-19 case while the Commissioner for Health demonstrated the use of oxygen produced by the Anambra State Primary Health Oxygen Production Plant which he said was produced with strict compliance to World Health Organization standard.