By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent The Mediatrix Development Foundation, founded by the wife of the Governor of Cross River State, Dr. Linda Ayade says one Mrs Patricia Agim who was sponsored by the foundation for the treatment of toxic goitre has undergone a successful surgery. Mrs. Agim is said to have been one of those
By Ilam Patricia The Government of Cross River State has received 19 motorcycles from the World Health Organization (WHO) to support its health surveillance system in interior areas not easily accessible by vehicles. Speaking separately, the State Commissioner for Health and maiden CrossRiverWatch Man Of The Year, Dr. Inyang Asibong and the Director General, Cross
By Ogar Monday Follow @ogar_monday 54 year old Mr. Mathias Odey whose hand was chopped off by a herdsman on Sunday November 5, 2017 has said that he has been rendered helpless with no help coming from anywhere. “When this happened, they were promises that the government will take care of my hospital bills and
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent Follow @Elijah_ugani The joint hospital in Ikom local government has been turning back some referred patients says Dr. Stephen Ochang, the leader of the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) and Nigerian Red Cross Society sponsored medical outreach for Cameroonian refugees residing in five local government areas of Cross River State.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Women from Okuni Community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River state on Monday, took to the streets to demand justice for a woman who was gang-raped in the presence of her husband. Numbering over one thousand, the women, dressed in black, commenced their peaceful march at the police station in
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent The United States Agency for International Development Health Finance and Governance (USAID HFG) has blamed the slow fight against Tuberculosis in Cross River State on the state government. The state coordinator of HFG, Dr. Ibiam Azu, made this known Saturday in Calabar, the Cross River capital at an event to
By Ogar Monday Stakeholders, working with children, women and vulnerable persons have asked the Cross River State Government to come up with a policy that will provide free health services for survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse. The request was made at a meeting on the causes, effects, experiences of, and responses to sexual exploitation
By Jonathan Ugbal A businessman, John Anayo is said to be in Police custody for defiling a 9 year old primary two (2) pupil of St. Stephen’s Primary School Obudu. The pupil, (name witheld) is said to be staying with one businessman who goes by the nickname ‘Chibest’ in Obudu and after his brother, Mr.