Ebonyi State Ministry of Health and Environment
Welcome to the Ministry of Health & Environment. The Ministry is responsible for the health of the State & the attainment of environmental sustainability (MDG 7).
Vision
To attain Health & Environment Millennium Development Goals (MDG or MDGs) 4,5,6,7,8
Mission
- Promote the public interest
- Serve with integrity
- Leave positive legacies
Health
- It is wise to start small but well & then grow big
- Revitalization of thirteen (13) general hospitals in phases & to gradually expand as resources permit
- One general hospital per LGA list with pictures
- Constructed 2 non-industrial clinics:
- Rice Mill – Mechanic Village
- Quarry site Umuoghara
- Grants to private health facilities (PPP & MDG 8)
- Established School of Health Technology Ngbo for development of manpower in the primary health sector
Disbursements
- St. Vincent Ndubia
- Sudan Mission Hospital Izzi
- Mile 4 Hospital
- Rural Improvement Mission Ikwo (R.I.M.)
- Presbyterian Joint Hospital Uburu (P.J.H.)
- Mater Misericordae Hospital Afikpo
Services
- Free maternal health care
- Rural & urban
- Public & private facilities
- Free grassroots mobile clinic & school children de-worming exercise
- Improved immunization services NIPDs, RI, LIDs, etc.
- Ebonyi State is polio-free
- Surrounded by infected neighboring States
Needs sustained immunization services – LGAs, Development
- Attracted EU–PRIME
- State cold store
- Five (5) LGA cold stores
Training programs
- TB/Leprosy
- Houses for ex-leprosy patients
- Pictures
- Roll Back Malaria (roll away malaria in Ebonyi)
- Free SP to pregnant women
- Free LLINs to children & women, etc.
- Onchocerciasis
- Community directed treatment with ivermectin (mectizan)
- Epidemic Control
- EPR/FMOH/2,500 doses ceftriaxine
- MCCI/SE-VVF Center
Environment
Goal
That Ebonyi State may attain MDG7 environmental sustainability
Mission
- Key priorities
- Wastes to wealth
- Refuse to resources
- Trash to cash
- Establish recycling plants
- Biodegradables to be converted to compost manure for our farmers (Ebonyi is an agrarian State)
- Non-biodegradable to be recycled into raw materials while evacuating our wastes
- Re-enforcement of environmental policies & attraction of NESREA
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