The Director General of the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong has described regular and high impact health interventions as the panacea to reducing maternal and infant mortality.
Dr. Ekpenyong made the remark at the flag-off of the 2022 Maternal, New Born and Child Healthcare week in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, south-south Nigeria.
Dr. Ekpenyong, who represented the wife of the governor, Dr. Linda Ayade, said that government was committed to ensuring that pregnant women and children from 0 to 59 months get the needed healthcare interventions required.
According to her, the Cross River State Government was collaborating with the Nigerian Government and development partners to introduce high impact health interventions such as routine immunization and vitamin supplements for pregnant women and children from time to time she stated.
Speaking further with newsmen, the Cross River Primary Healthcare Agency Director General said that the Maternal, Newborn and Child Healthcare Week afforded children within the ages of 0 to 5 years the opportunity to receive vitamin A supplementation necessary for strong immunity.
She explained that besides administering vitamin A to the children, the state government was also deworming them as an essential requirement for better nutrition.
Highpoint of the ceremony was the administration of vitamin A supplements and deworming tablets to the children below the ages of 5 years as well as distribution of mosquito nets, pregnancy kits and other supplements to pregnant women and nursing mothers in Diamond Hill community, Calabar Municipal council area.
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