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Roland Lankah hired as Brookline assistant health director
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Roland Lankah was recently hired as the assistant health director for the Brookline Department of Public Health.
Lankah started in his new role March 1. In addition to assisting in the management of the overall, day-to-day operations and personnel of the health department, he will oversee the environmental health department, which consists of licensing, permitting, public health inspections and code enforcement activities.
“Roland brings years of experience and a wealth of knowledge regarding public and environmental health to this role,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Swannie Jett. “He will play an important part in protecting the health and safety of our community, and we are thrilled to welcome him aboard and to work alongside him as he starts in this new role.”
CHICAGO (WLS) The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,022 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 44 deaths on Wednesday as the state gets ready to expand who is eligible for the COVID vaccine.
But there s a catch: no local health departments are going to follow the state s guidelines because there aren t enough vaccine doses currently available.
Multiple county health departments say it could be weeks before they re able to expand vaccine eligibility to people younger than 65 with underlying conditions, despite assurances from the state that supply will soon increase substantially.
Gov. JB Pritzker said federal deliveries to Illinois will increase to 100,000 daily doses by mid-March - nearly double what the state is currently managing.