The Effect of Covid 19 Lockdown on the Performance of Health Care Employees in Enugu State, Nigeria

This study aimed at the effect of COVID 19 lockdown on the performance of health care employees in Enugu State. The study area covered all the workers of the ministry of Health in Enugu State. Population of the Study constituted of all the 262 workers of the ministry of health. The whole number of 262 was used due to small population. The instrument used in data collection were questionnaire, oral interview, book, journals, magazines, newspapers, records from ministry of education, pamphlets and other publications. All these form parts of primary and secondary sources of data. The data collected from the questionnaire were presented in a frequency tables, simple percentage was used for analysis of data gotten from the respondents while chi-square was used for testing of the hypothesis at 0.5 level of significance, the findings of the study revealed that though COVID 19 lockdown helped to stop the spread of corona virus, it also negatively impacted on the performance of health care employees in Enugu State Ministry of Health, as it caused serious economic hardship with its attendant increase in prices of food items, Nigerians, health care employees inclusive suffered untold hardship during COVID 19 Lockdown. Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations were made; Nigeria government should work and put facilities in place for digitalized economy, where one should easily work from home and earn his income, the state and federal government should intensify efforts to fight corruption at all level, as corruption had been an obstacle militating against effective implementation of government development policies and program, the government and the masses should always anticipate economic crisis, and make plans ahead to tackle it. Keywords: COVID 19, Lockdown, Performance and Preventive Polices