The Cross River State Government has unveiled new interventions to improve access to healthcare.
Governor Bassey Otu flagged off a palliative program to provide free medical services to vulnerable groups, while also adopting informal workers into the state health insurance scheme.
The healthcare palliative, launched in Etung Local Government Area, is designed to provide free medical care for pregnant women, children under five, and elderly persons from seventy years and above.
In a separate intervention, five hundred informal sector workers were adopted into the Cross River State Health Insurance Scheme to ensure affordable and sustained healthcare coverage.
Governor Otu, represented by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Henry Ayuk, also commissioned a medical oxygen plant at the Ogoja General Hospital and inaugurated an ICT centre at the College of Nursing, Ogoja.
While praising the Health Commissioner for two years of dedicated service, the Governor reaffirmed that people in rural communities remain a top priority in government’s healthcare agenda.
The Director General of the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Vivien Mesembe, announced that the healthcare palliative program will be extended to all eighteen local government areas of the state.
With these measures, the state government says it is strengthening healthcare delivery to protect the most vulnerable and expand access to affordable services across Cross River State.
(Editor: Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie)
