By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent No fewer than 200 victims of the 2018 flood victims in Cross River State have received relief materials from the Nigerian Red Cross Society. Presenting the materials to the flood victims in Calabar at its Office, the National Coordinator, Restoring Family Links, Mrs. Angela Francis said the donation was in
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No fewer than four cases of child abuse were recorded between November 11 to 14, 2018 in Cross River State a statement from a nongovernmental organisation, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative says. BRCI disclosed this in a statement issued last week, where it also solicited the support of the public to curb the
By Obeten Godfrey and Patricia Ilam The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) has issued a fresh 21 day ultimatum to the hospital’s management to address issues bordering on payment of salary shortfalls and dilapidated structures. The ultimatum formed part of the resolution at the association’s emergency general
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade will today commission into use, 54 tricycle ambulances procured by the State to improve health delivery. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Director General of the State’s Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Betta Edu on Tuesday which said the
By Rose Ofem and Martha Abua The Association of Resident Doctors in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (ARD-UCTH) has embarked on a week-long warning strike following the failure of the institution’s management to pay it salary arrears. The warning strike is the result of the resolution of the general meeting of the association held
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent A factional governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Senator John Owan-Enoh and Nollywood actor, Bishop Ime last weekend joined hundreds of other prominent people at Transcorp Hotels in Calabar to raise awareness on the need to screen for cancer regularly. Mr. Owan-Enoh who said
By Ushang Ewa The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in prosecuting arrested quack medical practitioners across the country in other to serve as a deterrent to others. NMA President, Dr. Francis Faduyile, said this on Thursday in Calabar during the opening ceremony of the `Physicians Week 2018’ with the theme
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent The family of five suspected to be mad whose image went viral last week has been deemed as ‘not psychiatric’ by medical authorities in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The consultant psychiatrist in the Federal Neuro Psychiatric hospital in Calabar, Dr. Michael Olutoki said a team from the facility