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Cross River State is poised to deliver a basket of health care services to women and children under an integrated package of highly cost-effective MNCH interventions.


Pregnant women and children are set to benefit from the various forms of health interventions which includes nutritional supplementation of Vitamin A, delivery kits, vaccination, distribution of long lasting insecticide treated nets, deworming, screening for malnutrition in the State to help reduce the prevalence of malnutrition, malaria, vaccines preventable diseases among other common causes of maternal and child mortality. The state also flagged off its massive Covid-19 vaccination campaign for person over 18 years of age.


The flagging off exercise which was done by the State's Health Commissioner, Dr Betta Edu on behalf of the State Governor, Sen (Prof) Ben Ayade, targets over 900,000 children and 300,000 pregnant women across the State. The event which took place in Odukpani LGA also marked the commencement of the mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign across the State.


Declaring the commencement of both exercises open, Dr Betta Edu assured families of government's commitment towards eradicating every vaccine preventable diseases as well as the continued fight against common causes of deaths in pregnant women and children. She called on all Cross Riverians to take the Covid-19 vaccination if they have not yet taken it, noting that the new Super Variant Omicron is very dangerous. 


This integrated intervention, according to Dr Edu, is preventive in nature and aimed at building demand for health services across the state. 


"It is completely free and health workers are expected to create awareness working with communities. It's better and more cost effective for us to prevent diseases rather than cure them. 


"I want to encourage our women to take the responsibility of accessing medical care during pregnancy to help keep them and their babies safe....

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