Admin|2 February 2016|3:55pm
The Honorable commissioner for health, Cross River State has reiterate state Government commitment in ensuring state owned Hospitals promote medical tourism.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. (Mrs.) Inyang Asibong who made this known during her recently unscheduled visit to the General Hospital Calabar, vowed to ensure the state will be known for its medical tourism in terms of well- equipped facilities and endowed man – power.
Dr. Asibong said, the unscheduled visit was necessary to familiarize self with the running of the hospital, to ensure she is not carry away by hear say reports from some quarters and promised to continue visiting until medical personnel and other workers live up to the task of their services.
In her words "Paying unscheduled working visit to the hospitals will be a continuous thing, to ensure I'm not carry away by hear say reports from some quarters, the time has come to do away with obsolete equipments, embrace standards and ethics of practice where state hospitals become a reliable reference centres, where medical tourism is realistic, where patients have trust in care and treatment given. These are the Ernest desire of His Excellency, Senator Prof Benedict Ayade in ensuring every Cross Riverians remain healthy and happy".
Dr. Asibong commended the staff and management of the General Hospital Calabar for their efforts under the present situation to keep the hospital working and calls for improvement in quality of services given to patients that will ensure the mandate of His excellency Gov Ben Ayade is achievable.
Meanwhile, the Medical Superintendent of General Hospital Calabar, Dr. Ayi Etim disclosed that most equipments in the hospital needed to be upgraded and calls for increase in staff strength mostly specialists and experts to manage most cases that would make the hospital a reference centre of care and treatment.
Coco-Bassey Esu
SA -Media & Publicity, to the Commissioner for Health, CRS
