Abia State Government has concluded plans to renovate and retrofit 200

existing Primary health centres across the state before the end of this year.

The state Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, who disclosed this while

briefing journalists on the outcome of this week’s State Executive Council

meeting presided over by the state governor, Alex Otti said, the project which

is to be executed by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Abia State

Primary Healthcare Development Agency has a delivery period of one

hundred days with effect from September 2024.

He also said, the state recorded 13 suspected cases of Monkey Pox within

Isiala Ngwa, while, 9 out of the cases returned negative with one positive

whereas the remaining three are still unconfirmed.

He also informed that, as part of the ongoing reforms in the education

sector, the verification of those private schools were closed down, while, the

training of both Primary and Secondary teachers in the state by Educational

Consultants, will soon be concluded while all the examinations conducted by

the Education Development Center were successful.

The Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Professor Uche Emeh Uche said,

the government is not demolishing the buildings illegally erected on the land

of Government College Umuahia, while, the Special Adviser to the Governor

on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma said, the state government has

concluded the identification of houses to be demolished along the Umuikaa-

Owerrinta road expansion, and compensation for the affected structures will

commence soon.