by crossriverwatch admin The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr. Olumide Akintayo has called on pharmacists to get involved in ensuring that rural dwellers had access to health care services. Akintayo, who spoke at the launch of Reload, a multivitamin, at the just-concluded 32nd National Conference of the Association of Community Pharmacists of
by crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consortium for the construction of an ultra-modern Calabar Specialist Hospital, under public-private partnership. Governor Liyel Imoke and the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Attah Ochinke, signed on behalf of the state, while Mr. John Adesioye of Utopian
by crossriverwatch admin The role of the traditional birth attendants in Cross River State health care delivery is significant that government is not planning to banish them soon CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. The position of the government was made known during a press briefing in Calabar by the Special Adviser to Governor Liyel Imoke on
by crossriverwatch admin Authorities at the Federal Psychiatric Hospital Calabar are at loss how a patient identified as Uduak slipped through their eagle eye surveillance to commit suicide by hanging himself inside the bathroom with his bedding. A source which prefers anonymity said the deceased quietly left his room to commit suicide around 2am on
by crossriverwatch admin Over eight hundred thousand children were administered immunization, folic acid along with worm medicines while one hundred and seventy seven women were administered the anti tetanus vaccines during the one week Maternal Newborn and Child Week in Cross River State. Mrs. Patricia Ebam, the State Immunization Officer who gave the figures to
by NAN The Cross River Government has won $1 million prize instituted by Bill Gates Foundation for polio Immunization in Africa, Commissioner for Local Government Affairs Peter Ojie has said. Ojie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar that the state emerged the best in polio immunization in the South South
by crossriverwatch admin The moribund resource center in the General Hospital, Calabar has been re-equipped with modern research facilities. The center which was re-equipped to promote evidence-based health care services was commissioned by the State commissioner for Health, Professor Angela Oyo-Ita. Speaking while commissioning the center, the Commissioner said the Resource Center is been refurbished
by crossriverwatch admin Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Angela Oyo-Ita has expressed her displeasure over the continued depletion in the number of doctors in the state government employment in the rural areas of the state. Oyo-Ita said this is posing serious danger to the state health care delivery program as health care services