While two suspected Lassa fever deaths appear to have occurred in Cross River State, officials of the Ministry of Health in the state, are lip tied with information concerning the suspected Lassa fever deaths, even though sources within the Ministry have silently confirmed that certain health facilities in the state believed to have managed the…
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Sources within the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Cross River State chapter are certain that nurses in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH and the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, FNPH, Calabar, will join the three week old strike action embarked upon by their colleagues in the Cross River State…
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While the Presidential directive to suspend the Residency Programme for medical doctors in Nigeria may have been rescinded after the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, called off its prolonged strike action, it is emerging that a crisis may be brewing in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, over the hospital’s management handling of the sack…
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Family, friends and colleagues are still at a loss over the untimely death of a consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, early Thursday morning, www.calitown.com can reveal. Dr Ogum Obeten, the consultant, is said to have slumped and died on Thursday, August 28, 2014, while…
Worrying cases of car theft at the car park of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH are becoming a serious issue of concern for staff of the hospital and the general public, calitown.com can reveal. The thieves, capitalizing on the large number of cars parked for extended periods of time at different parking locations…
In what one source describes as “just a tip of the iceberg in the corruption considered second nature in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital”, UCTH, two Accounts Department staff (names withheld) have lost their jobs after authorities of the hospital discovered that both staff, a male and a female, have over a period of…