By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent Follow @Elijah_ugani In a bid to ensure support for the over 16,000 Cameroonian refugees in Cross River as well as the southern part of Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross and United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) have completed a training for health workers in the country’s southern port city of
By Ogar Monday Follow @ogar_monday The Cross River State government says the media has a critical role to play in ensuring the successful implementation of its social health insurance scheme. The flag off of the scheme tagged “Ayadecare” has been postponed severally. And, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Orientation in the state, Dr. Rosemary
By Ogar Monday Follow @ogar_monday The Cross River State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong has been announced as the winner of the CrossRiverWatch 2017 Man of The Year award. This was contained in a statement issued by CRWatch Resources; publishers of the online news portal; CrossRiverWatch on Thursday where it stated that Mrs. Archibong
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent Follow @Elijah_ugani Players in the Cross River State health sector have solicited the partnership of the media in disseminating information concerning immunization campaigns in a bid to promote a healthy attitudinal change among the citizenry. This was the focus of an interactive session organized by the state primary healthcare development
By Monday Ogar Follow @ogar_monday Over 16,000 Cameroonians of the Anglophone extraction are currently spread across Cross River State with more expected as the crackdown continues in the Northwest and Southwest regions of that country says Ms. Brigitte Mukanga-Eno, the deputy representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency in Nigeria. The UNHCR expects the number
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent Follow @Elijah_ugani In a rather dramatic turn of events at the ongoing medical outreach by the Mediatrix Development Foundation and Faithcare Foundation in Obudu, wife of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River, Dr. Linda Ayade on Thursday scrubbed in to assist colleagues in the surgeries performed on some patients. “It
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent The Faithcare foundation in partnership with the Mediatrix Development Foundation has commenced a five day long medical outreach in Obudu local government area of northern Cross River state with the mother of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Mrs. Theresa Akpagu commending the organizers of the initiative. The
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River Government says it is planning to include migrants fleeing a crackdown in Cameroonian and taking refuge in the state in its next measles vaccination campaign. The Director General of the state’s Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Betta Edu disclosed this while addressing the migrants in central Cross River