Charles Ekanem|7 October 2017
Action For Rural Development (AFRUD), a civil society group yesterday presented the gazetted law of the Cross River State Primary healthcare development Agency to the Director General, Dr Betta Edu in her office at Moore Road NegroidHaven has garnered.
Receiving first printed copies of the law, Dr Edu said it a very beautiful thing to have a Governor Ben Ayade who is pro-health and has sector specific intelligence in health, signing into law bills that have transformed the landscape of healthcare reforms in the state. We now have a gazetted Law For CRS Primary Health Care Dev Agency which can be quoted or referenced anywhere in the world. This simply means no going back on our quest to institutionalize primary healthcare under one roof in Cross River State.
She said the Agency is very grateful to His Excellency, Senator (Prof) Ben Ayade the supersonic super digital Governor of Cross River State for his support to improving Primary Health and making it a law. She said with the law, Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency can have right to work and deliver their mandate by coordinating all affairs relating to primary healthcare in the State.
Dr Edu went further to thanked the Deputy Governor, the Honourable Commissioner for Health, the Speaker State House of Assembly, House committee chairman on health, Chairman Local Government Service Commission and the Civil Society Organization for their support to ensuring Primary Healthcare Under one Roof through their contributions to the Law.
She said more can be achieved in revitalising primary healthcare in the State if all partners and stakeholders work in tandem with the policy and goals of the Governor and Agency.
Presenting the gazetted law to the Director General of CRSPHCDA Dr Betta Edu, Mr Gregory Agam said their role was to ensure that after signing the bill into law by the State Governor, the facilitate and get the law gazetted. today we present it to the Agency as a workable document that will help strengthen PHC in the State.
Action For Rural Development (AFRUD) civil society group is organization and network of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for primary health care under one roof.
Present at the presentation were Director of Administration, Pastor (Barr) Dan Effiom and the Director of Finance. Health policy specialist Alexia amongst others.
Charles Ekanem
Is a Health reporter, he writes from Calabar.
