Admin|15 March 2016|8:51am
The DG, Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. (Mrs.) Betta Edu paid a courtesy visit to the Comptroller of Nigerian Immigration Services Cross River State to reconnoitre a partnership between the agency and immigration services.
In her remarks, Dr. Betta eulogized the Comptroller General of Immigration Services Cross River State, Mrs. Funke Adeuyi, reinstating they agency's willingness to partner with the immigration services to curtail unavailability of health services in the border communities. She emphasized the need to immunize children in the boarder communities and across the boarder to prevent cross-boarder diseases transmission. The DG promised to provide health services for immigration men at the border while calling on everyone to be vigilant and report any disease noticed.
The DG assured the Nigerian Immigration Services of Governor Benedict Ayade's proactive measures and plans to establish Primary Health post in the border communities to prevent cross-border diseases.
Speaking on behalf of World Health Organization in Cross River State, Mrs Ikwo Imoke who represented the Head of the WHO Calabar Field Office noted non-availability of sensitization on polio and other preventable diseases in border communities like Ekang, Ikang, Offum and Agbokim as she pleaded for partnership to enable health workers carry out immunization services there.
In her response, the Comptroller, Funke Adeuyi commended the DG refering to her as light at the end of the tunnel in Cross River State Primary Health Care system, she thanked her novel initiative for the border communities in a bid to boost primary health care services and promised to work effectively with the agency. She advised the DG to pay a similar visit to Consul General of Cameroon Consulate in Calabar and seek their collaboration to go across the border and immunise the children in the border communities to prevent them from reinfecting our people.
Charles Ekanem
Media & Publicity Aide to the DG, CRSPHCDA.
