Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, claimed that no health centre in the state had protection kits or doctors equipped for Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, control, despite the hype by the government about efforts and programmes put in place to checkmate the spread of the disease in the state.

Chairman of the state PDP, Mr. Felix Obuah, in a statement through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr.Jerry Needam, demanded to know what happened to the over N1.5 billion the state government claimed it had spent on the control and programmes to checkmate the health challenge in the state.

This, according to him, is exclusive of the N200 million the Federal Government gave to the state to control the disease.

He said: “The party notes with dismay that in all the 23 local government areas of the state, there is no hospital with Ebola disease protection kits for health workers, not even in the Braithwaite Memorial, BMH, and the so called Kingsley Harrison, Specialist Hospitals in Port Harcourt. The PDP recalls that it was also the need to properly equip the schools and the health centres for the EVD control that Governor Rotimi Amaechi rejected the Federal Government’s directive on resumption date for all schools in the country, fixing that of Rivers State for October 6, 2014 yet all the schools are as they were before the Ebola outbreak.”

“It’s no longer a matter of rhetorics, the PDP argues, demanding that Dr. Sampson Parker should tell Rivers people which of the health centres in the State he supplied the protection kits and which of the hospitals are his trained medical personnel for the Ebola control working.  It’s now that the then speculation of using ebola for other pecuniary interests  by Amaechi, Dr. Parker and a other beneficiaries has become clearer which means that all  the claims and counter claims about the disease control were mere deception”.