PART I: HEALTHFUL-Words This week’s Healthful Words on CrossRiverWatch is a sequel of a previous quote drawn from World Health Report 1995 by the World Health Organization. “I was hungry and you formed a committee to investigate my hunger. I was homeless and you filed a report on my plight. I was sick and you
By Our Correspondent The Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists [NSA] , has won the bid to host the 6th All Africa Anaesthesia Congress [AAAC 2017]. The Association is therefore poised to host the biggest gathering of Anaesthetists in Nigeria and indeed Western part of Africa with the expected 1,000 doctors from all over the world gathering
CHOLERA: the Death-Dealing Disease, Our Life-Saving Choices. The year was 1854, and London was in the grip of yet another outbreak of cholera—an intestinal ailment characterized by severe diarrhea and dehydration. The disease struck with alarming speed. Many who awoke in good health were dead by nightfall. There was no known cure. Some thought cholera
By Raymond Ekemini As the strike by members of the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU which started on the 16th of November 2014, enters its third month, medical students in the University of Calabar have cried out about the adverse effect of the strike on their academics. Speaking to the our reporter, some of the
Welcome to HealthTALK, one of the many new features CrossRiverWatch is creating just for YOU – because we don’t just inform our audience, we also educate. In this first episode, we are going straight into the “heart of the matter” – the HEART! Today’s Theme: What’s in a Heartbeat? It’s very informative. Sit back, Relax,
Literary, a medical center is a place set aside for medical attention and treatment. Important settings and various establishments can never be complete without a medical center. The University of Calabar was not left out, as they have built and renovated a very beautiful structure, which they set aside and called it A MEDICAL CENTER.
By Cynthia Michael The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA has identified Cross River and 11 other states as well as the Federal Capital Territory as HIV endemic states in the country. Director-General of NACA, Prof. John Idoko, said this in Ikom, Cross River, at the opening of a four-day free HIV and
by crossriverwatch admin Determined to avoid being caught napping by the dreaded Ebola disease imported into Nigeria by the Late Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian, the Cross River Government has set up an Ebola Response Committee. Inaugurating the Committee recently at the College of Health Technology, Calabar, the State Commissioner for Health, Professor Angela Oyo-Ita, disclosed