By Prince Charles Ekanem The Wife of the Governor of Cross River State and Founder, Mediatrix Development Foundation MDF, Dr. Linda Ayade, joined the rest of the world on the 7th October, 2017 to mark the Global Hand Washing Day. Mrs. Ayade hosted relevant stakeholders in the health sector working in the state to a
By Jonathan Ugbal Following the outbreak of the Monkey pox virus in states bordering Cross River, the government says it has put in place measures to ensure any eventuality is handled promptly. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong and the Director General of the state’s Primary Health Care Development Agency disclosed this to CrossRiverWatch
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Being a sponsored statement from the Cross River State Ministry of Health. Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms in humans similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although less severe. Smallpox was eradicated in 1980. However, monkeypox still occurs sporadically
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The wife of the Commissioner for Rural Transformation, Establishment and Training, Honorable Sunday Achunekang has died. Mrs. Achunekang is said to have died on Wednesday morning after a brief illness. Friends say she had complained of ill health on Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning, was taken by her husband to an
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State government is on the verge of losing a USD5 million grant from the United Nations Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council due to it’s failure to provide the counterpart funding of NGN104 million to expand the sanitation and hygiene program. This equals NGN1,802,500,000.00 (one point eight billion Naira)
By Jonathan Ugbal A journalist, Ekpe Bassey is currently at loss over actions to take after his wife, Angela Bassey delivered a stillborn despite assurances from doctors at the General Hospital in Calabar, the Cross River State capital that she was okay. Mr. Ekpe is the nonlinear editor attached to the press unit of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Dr. Thomas Agan has said that over 90 percent of deaths recorded in health facilities are caused by the attitude of health care givers. Dr. Agan stated this in an interview with the SUN’s Judex Okoro recently where he spoke on
By Jonathan Ugbal There are 97,500 people living with diabetic retinopathy in Cross River State, a condition that sees about 10 percent of those affected likely to become blind. Already, 1,000 out of the 10,000 blind people living in Calabar Municipal local government area lost their sight due to diabetic retinopathy says the Dr. Betta