COVID-19: SRADev, GAIA donate relief package to frontline workers in Lagos
Photo Caption: Executive Director of SRADev-Nigeria, Dr Leslie Adogame, in a photograph with representative of LAWMA during the presentation of the relief package on Thursday 28 May 2020 in Lagos.
In recognition of the critical role being played in the management of medical waste from the various isolation centres where the patients of coronavirus are being treated, the Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev-Nigeria) with the support of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) on Thursday 28 May 2020 donated relief package to staff of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and health workers that are managing the medical waste.
The donation of the relief package comprising of Personal Protective Equipment and food items was aimed at encouraging the LAWMA staff that are also playing critical role but are often not recognised in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed close to 400,000 lives globally and about 250 in Nigeria.
At a brief meeting in line with the social distancing rule held at the Conference room of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment on Thursday, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs. Ronke Odeneye, who received the items on behalf of the ministry said all hands are on the deck in the ministry by the officials to ensure that the isolation centres and the environment are clean.
She explained that LAWMA is making sure that waste from the isolation centres is disposed in a hygienic way. She added that the health workers are ensuring that environment is clean.
The Permanent Secretary went further, “Right now we are disinfecting the environment to ensure that everything is ok”.
She commending SRADev for partnering with the government to encourage LAWMA staff and the health workers are in the forefront of the fight against coronavirus.
Executive Director, SRADev-Nigeria, Dr. Leslie Adogame, said the organization recognized the enormous the state is deploying in fighting the pandemic, adding that the Ministry of the Environment is important in the fight against the pandemic because it is connected to health.
He said, “We also recognized key agency like LAWMA in the crisis. The group of people we are recognizing today are our hero’s in the fight.
“GAIA and SRADev decided to recognize the effort of the Lagos State government through LAWMA. It is a little gift to encourage the team”.
SRADev-Nigeria is a Lagos-based professional non-governmental, non-profit think tank in environmental health research and development while GAIA is a worldwide alliance of grassroots groups and individuals whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
