The Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), has donated 100 beds and its accessories to the Enugu State Government to help fight COVID-19.
Mrs Chiaka Mbagwu, a CACOVID member in the state, made the donation on Tuesday at the State Diagnostic Centre in Enugu, on behalf of the Coalition.
Mbagwu said the coalition donated the beds and other accessories to assist the state government in equipping its isolation and treatment centres, so as to accommodate more COVID-19 patients at the centre.
She said that the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic had put intense pressure on the healthcare systems of the world, stressing that the outbreak had gone out of proportion.
Mbagwu said the materials at the facilities would go a long way in serving the public and urged the state government to ensure that the citizenry benefited from the facility.
“Today is the commissioning of CACOVID centre in Enugu. CACOVID is a Private Sector Coalition against COVID-19.
“It is a Coalition to support individual region and state government in fighting coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.
“The state has done remarkably effort in equipping this Diagnostic Centre and CACOVID came in to support and add to what the state has already done.
“This is diagnostic centre from the inception but the CACOVID coalition was able to add with proposed 100 beds isolation centre facility. It will serve as isolation centre in the state”, Mbagwu said.
She thanked all the healthcare workers in the state for their efforts at combating the pandemic in the state.
Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the Enugu State Governor, while receiving the donation, commended the coalition for the supplies saying the items would assist the state in combating the disease.
Ugwuanyi said that the state had three isolation centres in ESUTH Parklane, Nsukka and the state Diagnostic Centre.
He said that coronavirus pandemic had overwhelmed health system of many countries noting that Nigeria could only win the war against the pandemic through collective efforts.
He urged other groups to partner with the state government to defeat the dreaded virus.
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