Special Edition No. 82 Saturday, 3 April, 2021 Pages 4 REGROUPING OF VILLAGES NEWS BRIEF IMPROVING HEALTH SERVICE Commendable effort has been made to improve and expand health service provision in the Southern region. According to Dr. Emanuel Mihreteab, head of the Ministry of Health branch in the region, in 2020 modern medical equipment have been installed in five hospitals in the region and that praiseworthy medical service is being provided to the public. Indicating that the health facilities are equipped with the necessary medical equipment and human resources, Dr. Emanuel said that compared to that of 2019 pre and post natal treatment visits has increased by 64%, pregnant women delivering at health facilities by 3% and vaccination coverage by 94%. Social service provision are significantly contributing Foro semi-urban center is Dr. Emanuel went on to say that controlling communicable diseases institutions put in place in Foro in facilitating socio-economic located 46 km south of the port has been the main priority program and that malaria infection has been semi-urban center is contributing activities, the residents called for city of Massawa and is resident reduced by 50% and death rate due to malaria has been reduced to zero in villages regrouping. the maintenance of the roads in to about 800 families. level while TB treatment to 93%. some areas that are damaged due The substantial investment to flooding and for allotment of In the Southern region there are one referral hospital, 4 hospitals, 3 made to put in place educational land for construction of residential community hospitals, 9 health centers, 41 health stations as well as 2 and health facilities as well as houses. clinics providing health service to the public. transportation, potable water STRENGTHENING YOUTH and electricity power services According to Mr. Zerzghi is significantly contributing in Nemariam, head of Social Service ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION ACTIVITY facilitating the daily lives of the in the sub-zone, the number Community based environmental sanitation activity has been residents and thereby improving of schools in Foro semi-urban CAPACITY implemented in 98 villages clustered in 14 administrative areas in their livelihoods. center has increased from one to Akordet sub-zone. The report was made at an activity assessment six and the residents have become The National Union of Eritrean meeting with village representatives and village health coordinators. Indicating that the asphalt beneficiaries of mobile-telephone Youth and Students branch in road linking Massawa-Foro service. Adi-Keih sub-zone organized Commending the strong participation demonstrated by the residents, and Adi-Keih-Foro dirt road seminar focusing on strengthening Mr. Daniel Kidane, head of Environmental Sanitation in the sub-zone, organizational capacity of the said that as a result of the program the prevalence of communicable youth in general and that of diseases has significantly been reduced. females in particular. ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE Mr. Abdu Yakob, head of Environmental Sanitation in Gash Barka The seminar that was region, on his part commending the strong participation of the residents MINISTRY OF HEALTH participated by the youth from in Akordet sub-zone, called on other sub-zones to emulate Akordet sub- all line ministries, national zone residents with a view to ensure public health. Twenty six patients have been diagnosed positive for associations and Police as COVID-19 in tests carried out yesterday at Quarantine well as area administrations Expressing appreciation for the support they were provided by health Centers in Central, Northern Red Sea, Gash Barka, and included developing political practitioners and administration, the residents called for more support Southern Regions. awareness of the youth, ideology with a view to alleviate some of the challenges that are being faced in and administration, as well as some villages during the implementation of the program. Out of these, eleven patients are from Quarantine Centers vision of women in the youth in Asmara, Central Region, and Massawa (6), Northern organization. According to documents from the Akordet sub-zone, 84% of Region. The other patients are from Quarantine Centers the 64,548 residents of the sub-zone have become beneficiaries of in Adibara (4), Ali-gider (1), and Omhajer (1) Gash Barka Indicating that without strong latrines. Region Region. The rest three patients are from Adi-quala, organizational capacity fruitful Southern Region. and effective programs could not SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION ACTIVITY be conducted, Mr. Mehreteab Inhabitants of 15 administrative areas in Akordet sub-zone are On the other hand, nine patients who have been receiving Andemariam, head of the union carrying out soil and water conservation activity. medical treatment in hospitals in Northern Red Sea Region branch in the sub-zone, called have recovered fully and have been discharged from these on the participants to apply the The popular campaign in which the residents are participating twice facilities. knowledge they acquired from per week includes construction of terraces, preparation of holes for the seminar on the ground and planting tree seedlings as well as renovation of roads. The total number of recovered patients has accordingly play due part in strengthening the risen to 3058 while the number of deaths stands at ten. union. According to Mr. Tedros Gebremariam, head of the agricultural office in the sub-zone, the program is to construct terraces and water The total number of confirmed cases in the country to-date Mr. Kiros Gebremariam, diversion schemes on 3050 hectares of land and that so far 88% of the has increased to 3334. managing director in the sub-zone, program has been accomplished. on his part expressed readiness of Ministry of Health the sub-zonal administration to The participants on their part expressed readiness to strengthen Asmara stand alongside the union branch participation for the successful implementation of the program. 2 April 2021 in all its endeavors. Eritrea Profile, Saturday, 3 April, 2021 No.82 2 The Demise of the TPLF Junta: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust Since the launch of TPLF’s suicidal misadventure five months ago, citizens of the Horn of Africa region are observing with incredulity two intertwined reactions from some personalities, states, organizations and the corporate media. The first and much pronounced aspect is the attempt to create an alternate reality of the conflict. This goes in parallel with the publicly displayed melodramatic stages of grief that these entities are going through. TPLF lobbyists in the garb of think tanks, NGOs, members of governmental and international organization bureaucracies have on fictitious atrocities. They are contained and excluded from the countries near and far as equal a peaceful and prosperous Horn been working frantically to create resorting to punishing the forces regional sphere. partners. of Africa. an Orwellian reality using all the that contained and defeated The personalities, states, tools at their disposal. They want TPLF’s misadventures; while Their vision for the region In a military confrontation that organizations and the corporate the world to believe that the junta scrapping the barrel to resuscitate diametrically contrasts with it started, TPLF has crumbled media who are laboring to create who launched coordinated military the criminal junta shunned by the wishes of the peoples and into tiny pieces and got swept by alternate reality are invited to attacks on 200 positions of the peoples of the Horn. Governments of the Horn of the wind; with zero possibility of have closure, accept TPLF’s Ethiopia’s Northern Command Africa. The way forward is the pieces coming together again. demise, cross the Rubicon, be a and neighboring regions, Simultaneously, they are going for all the States to engage on The sooner the external actors force for good in the Horn. The indiscriminately fired missiles on through the stages of grief over equal terms for mutual benefits, accept this irrefutable reality, the lobbyists will join you once the cities in Ethiopia and neighboring the defeat of TPLF. It started consolidate the peace and create better chance they have to salvage checks dry up. Eritrea; to be seen as an innocent with denial. When TPLF was complementarity that benefits any opportunity of engaging the victim! The junta that committed decimated in the battle field and their citizens, engaging with countries of the region in shaping By: Senait Hadera well-documented massacres and went on the run; they held on to unspeakable atrocities including the belief that it was junta’s well- in Mai Kadra, and on Eritreans calculated move. interned in camps in Tigray; is portrayed as reliable informant This was followed by anger. Once the TPLF leaders with whom they wined and dined, LOCAL NEWS and who signed their checks or to whom they gave blank checks were caught and killed in battle; they went into a rage and blamed everyone but those who started DEVELOPING POULTRY FARMING Published Every the military confrontation. In the midst of their anger they resorted SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every As part of the effort to develop poultry farming, the Ministry of Agriculture branch in Akordet sub-zone WednesdayPublished & SaturdayEvery to scapegoating a neighboring Saturday & Wednesday country, Eritrea, for the disasters has distributed chicks to 239 farmers at fare price. created by TPLF. Acting Editor Mr. Kokeb Fitsum, representative of the office, said that the objective of the program was to encourage Acting Editor farmers to develop poultry farming activity and contribute due part in the effort to ensure food security and Amanuel Mesfun Five months down the road, they Amanuel Mesfun are yet to exhibit any semblance stabilize the market. [email protected] Mesfun [email protected] of accepting the demise of TPLF and having closure. It might not Mr. Kokeb also called on farmers in the sub-zone to apply the advice they receive from agricultural P.O.Box: 247 experts regarding the health and treatment of their chickens.