"The N200 million (two hundred million naira) is a distinct and direct Federal Government support to Lagos State and does not preclude other assistance that may be rendered to the State through the Federal Ministry of Health," the ministry says.
In a press statement released today, Nigerian Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu announced yesterday that the money giving to the Lagos State government by the Federal Government is a separate fund from the N1.9bn released to the ministry. This money joins millions donated by corporations in Nigeria, including the Dangote Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
[story_link align="left"]34611[/story_link]Despite the abundance in funds within the state government in Lagos and the Federal Government, conditions at the isolation center in Yaba, Lagos remain desolate and squalid, and no treatment has been developed or administered by medical officials to stabilize the patients there. Instead the Ministry and Lagos State government appear to be handling the crisis rather disjointedly.
Read the press statement from the Ministry of Health below.
PRESS STATEMENT
FG’s N200 million donation to LASG separate from N1.9 billion released to FMOH
The Honourable Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu announced at the post Federal Executive Council press briefing yesterday that the following corporate organizations have made contributions to the Federal Government’s control measures against Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.
1. Aliko Dangote Foundation donated N152 million (one hundred and fifty two million naira ) to sponsor the Ebola Emergency Operation Centre in Lagos.
2. The ANAP Foundation founded by Mr. Atedo Peterside informed the Minister of Health that the foundation would be supporting affected private hospitals to the tune of N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) per bed space. He also disclosed to the Minister that the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos where the index case was managed would be the first beneficiary and that the hospital would receive N4 million (four million naira) since its bed capacity is forty.
3. The Tony Elumelu Foundation has pledged a donation of N50 million (fifty million naira) to support the Federal Government’s containment efforts.
4. Shell Petroleum Limited donated an ambulance to the Ebola Emergency Operation Centre in Lagos.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health has also clarified that the N200 million (two hundred million naira) approved by President Goodluck Jonathan to support the Lagos State Government is not part of the N1.9 billion (one billion, nine hundred million naira) earlier released to the Federal Ministry of Health. The N200 million (two hundred million naira) is a distinct and direct Federal Government support to Lagos State and does not preclude other assistance that may be rendered to the State through the Federal Ministry of Health.
Dan Nwomeh
Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister of Health