Cross
River Government has offered free medical services to no fewer than 300 Vesico
Vaginal Fistula, VVF patients in the state from 2012 to date.
Disclosing
this today in Calabar, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Inyang Asibong,
said that the patients were treated at the VVF centres in Ogoja and Calabar
respectively.
According
to her, the ministry has to carry out a sensitisation campaign to stop
stigmatization against VVF patients and thereby encourage affected women to
come out for treatment.
The
commissioner also said the ministry was currently recruiting medical doctors
and other health workers to be deployed in the rural areas to cushion the shortage
of health personnel in the rural areas.
Furthermore,
she advised women suffering from VVF to visit any of the fully equipped centres
for treatment.
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