By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondents Stakeholders in the Health Sector have committed to strengthening collaboration to ensure the smooth implementation of the new United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership Framework (UNSDPF) for Nigeria. UNSDPF is to replace the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF III) and comes on the heels of the adoption of the Sustainable
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No religion is stronger than giving your weaker brother or sister a shoulder to lean on – Prof. Ben Ayade. “I lost my husband and I had 6 Children, 2 of my children thin thin thin no food, they sick till them die last year na this 4 remain” ! -(a mother’s
By CrossRiverWatch Admin All is now set for the next round of the Obstetric Fistula pool effort repairs at the Fistula Center of the Ogoja General Hospital in the Northern Senatorial District of the State from the 6th to the 10th of November, 2017. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Inyang
By Our Reporter The Wife of the Cross River State Governor, Dr. Linda Ayade, has commissioned the Secretariat of her NGO, Mediatrix Development Foundation MDF, and the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency CRSPHCDA, office now at former Saint Margaret Hospital (UCTH) complex, Moore Road, Calabar. She also used the opportunity to donate drugs
By Our Reporter Director General of the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Betta Edu, has advised young people against early sexual activities and lack of personal hygiene culture which could lead to preventable diseases. She gave the admonition while speaking to a group of school children under the Peer Educators Training (PET)
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 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