The Effect of Covid 19 Lockdown on the Performance of Health Care Employees in Enugu State, Nigeria
1Anikeze Nnaemeka Hillary, 2Orji Stella Ifeoma and 3Nwokoroeze Chinonye Nnenna
1Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Science Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu State, Nigeria
2Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science and Humanity, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu State, Nigeria
3Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Enugu state university of science and Technology
Email:nnaemeka.anikeze@esut.edu.ng; nwokoroezechinonye@gmail.com; stella.orji@esut.edu.ng
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to examine the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on the performance of healthcare employees in Enugu State. The study area covered all the workers of the Ministry of Health in Enugu State. The population of the Study constituted of all the 262 workers of the Ministry of Health. The whole number of 262 was used due to the small population. The instruments used in data collection were questionnaires, oral interviews, books, journals, magazines, newspapers, records from the 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, Preventive Polices
CITE AS: Anikeze Nnaemeka Hillary, Orji Stella Ifeoma and Nwokoroeze Chinonye Nnenna (2026). The Effect of Covid 19 Lockdown on the Performance of Health Care Employees in Enugu State, Nigeria. IDOSR JOURNAL OF ARTS AND MANAGEMENT 11(1):28-37. https:/doi.org/10.59298/IDOSRJAM/2026/111.2837